THE PLANK: Designing a Simple Haptic Controller.

Bill Verplank, Michael Gurevich, and Max Mathews

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Active force-feedback holds the potential for precise and rapid controls. A high performance device can be built from a surplus disk drive and controlled from an inexpensive microcontroller. Our new design,The Plank has only one axis of force-feedback with limited range of motion. It is being used to explore methods of feeling and directly manipulating sound waves and spectra suitable for live performance of computer music.

Citation:

Bill Verplank, Michael Gurevich, and Max Mathews. 2002. THE PLANK: Designing a Simple Haptic Controller.. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176466

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Verplank2002,
 abstract = {Active force-feedback holds the potential for precise and rapid controls. A high performance device can be built from a surplus disk drive and controlled from an inexpensive microcontroller. Our new design,The Plank has only one axis of force-feedback with limited range of motion. It is being used to explore methods of feeling and directly manipulating sound waves and spectra suitable for live performance of computer music.},
 address = {Dublin, Ireland},
 author = {Verplank, Bill and Gurevich, Michael and Mathews, Max},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {24-26 May, 2002},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176466},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Haptics, music controllers, scanned synthesis.},
 pages = {177--180},
 title = {THE PLANK: Designing a Simple Haptic Controller.},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2002/nime2002_177.pdf},
 year = {2002}
}