Creating a Real-Time Responsive Handbalancing Interface with HAND★CS

Linnea Kirby, Christiana Rose, Jeremy Cooperstock, and Marcelo Wanderley

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper introduces HAND★CS, a new interface for interdisciplinary expression for music, movement, and light. Our interface augments a pedagogical interface for hand-balancing, Haptics-Assisted iNversions Device (HAND), and transforms it into one for artistic expression. It draws upon Licklider’s concept of man-computer symbiosis, specifically the commensalism form of symbiosis. HAND★CS strives to embody a performance apparatus and system with symbiotic connectivity between performer and interface. This paper discusses the inspiration and background for such a system pulling from the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), music technology and new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), and circus arts. In addition, it defines the design and implementation, evaluation of the prototype of HAND★CS, and future work.

Citation

Linnea Kirby, Christiana Rose, Jeremy Cooperstock, and Marcelo Wanderley. 2025. Creating a Real-Time Responsive Handbalancing Interface with HAND★CS. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15699614 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@article{nime2025_39,
 abstract = {This paper introduces HAND★CS, a new interface for interdisciplinary expression for music, movement, and light. Our interface augments a pedagogical interface for hand-balancing, Haptics-Assisted iNversions Device (HAND), and transforms it into one for artistic expression. It draws upon Licklider’s concept of man-computer symbiosis, specifically the commensalism form of symbiosis. HAND★CS strives to embody a performance apparatus and system with symbiotic connectivity between performer and interface. This paper discusses the inspiration and background for such a system pulling from the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), music technology and new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), and circus arts. In addition, it defines the design and implementation, evaluation of the prototype of HAND★CS, and future work.},
 address = {Canberra, Australia},
 articleno = {39},
 author = {Linnea Kirby and Christiana Rose and Jeremy Cooperstock and Marcelo Wanderley},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15699614},
 editor = {Doga Cavdir and Florent Berthaut},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 numpages = {7},
 pages = {280--286},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/ePlOPTdzB7A},
 title = {Creating a Real-Time Responsive Handbalancing Interface with HAND★CS},
 track = {Paper},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_39.pdf},
 year = {2025}
}