Fortissimo: Force-Feedback for Mobile Devices

Tae Hong Park, and Oriol Nieto

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

In this paper we present a highly expressive, robust, and easy-to-build systemthat provides force-feedback interaction for mobile computing devices (MCD).Our system, which we call Fortissimo (ff), utilizes standard built-inaccelerometer measurements in conjunction with generic foam padding that can beeasily placed under a device to render an expressive force-feedback performancesetup. Fortissimo allows for musically expressive user-interaction with addedforce-feedback which is integral for any musical controller --a feature that isabsent for touchscreen-centric MCDs. This paper details ff core concepts,hardware and software designs, and expressivity of musical features.

Citation

Tae Hong Park, and Oriol Nieto. 2013. Fortissimo: Force-Feedback for Mobile Devices. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178638 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Park2013c,
 abstract = {In this paper we present a highly expressive, robust, and easy-to-build systemthat provides force-feedback interaction for mobile computing devices (MCD).Our system, which we call Fortissimo (ff), utilizes standard built-inaccelerometer measurements in conjunction with generic foam padding that can beeasily placed under a device to render an expressive force-feedback performancesetup. Fortissimo allows for musically expressive user-interaction with addedforce-feedback which is integral for any musical controller --a feature that isabsent for touchscreen-centric MCDs. This paper details ff core concepts,hardware and software designs, and expressivity of musical features.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Tae Hong Park and Oriol Nieto},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178638},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {force-feedback, expression, mobile computing devices, mobile music},
 month = {May},
 pages = {291--294},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Fortissimo: Force-Feedback for Mobile Devices},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_233.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}