A Low-Cost, Low-Latency Multi-Touch Table with Haptic Feedback for Musical Applications

Matthew Montag, Stefan Sullivan, Scott Dickey, and Colby Leider

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

During the past decade, multi-touch surfaces have emerged as valuable tools for collaboration, display, interaction, and musical expression. Unfortunately, they tend to be costly and often suffer from two drawbacks for music performance:(1) relatively high latency owing to their sensing mechanism, and (2) lack of haptic feedback. We analyze the latency present in several current multi-touch platforms, and we describe a new custom system that reduces latency to an average of 30 ms while providing programmable haptic feed-back to the user. The paper concludes with a description of ongoing and future work.

Citation

Matthew Montag, Stefan Sullivan, Scott Dickey, and Colby Leider. 2011. A Low-Cost, Low-Latency Multi-Touch Table with Haptic Feedback for Musical Applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178115

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Montag2011,
 abstract = {During the past decade, multi-touch surfaces have emerged as valuable tools for collaboration, display, interaction, and musical expression. Unfortunately, they tend to be costly and often suffer from two drawbacks for music performance:(1) relatively high latency owing to their sensing mechanism, and (2) lack of haptic feedback. We analyze the latency present in several current multi-touch platforms, and we describe a new custom system that reduces latency to an average of 30 ms while providing programmable haptic feed-back to the user. The paper concludes with a description of ongoing and future work.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Montag, Matthew and Sullivan, Stefan and Dickey, Scott and Leider, Colby},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178115},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {multi-touch, haptics, frustrated total internal reflection, music performance, music composition, latency, DIY },
 pages = {8--13},
 presentation-video = {https://vimeo.com/26799018/},
 title = {A Low-Cost, Low-Latency Multi-Touch Table with Haptic Feedback for Musical Applications},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_008.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}