2002: The Plank: Designing a Simple Haptic Controller

Verplank, Bill; Gurevich, Michael; Mathews, M. V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0_5

Cited by 18 publications

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“…Lozada, Hafez, and Boutillon (2007) use magneto-rheological fluid to achieve similar force feedback. Bill Verplank's "Plank" allows forcefeedback keys to be built from voice-coil motors taken from surplus hard drives (Verplank, Gurevich, and Mathews 2002).…”

Section: Active Haptic Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Buttons, Handles, and Keys: Advances in Continuous-Control Keyboard Instruments

McPherson

2015

Computer Music Journal

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The keyboard is one of the most popular and enduring musical interfaces ever created. Today, the keyboard is most closely associated with the acoustic piano and the electronic keyboards inspired by it, which share the essential feature of being discrete: Notes are defined temporally by their onset and release only, with little control over each note beyond velocity and timing. Many keyboard instruments have been invented, however, that let the player continuously shape each note. This article provides a review of keyboards whose keys allow continuous control, from early mechanical origins to the latest digital controllers and augmented instruments. Two of the author's own contributions will be described in detail: a portable optical scanner that can measure continuous key angle on any acoustic piano, and the TouchKeys capacitive multi-touch sensors, which measure the position of fingers on the key surfaces. These two instrument technologies share the trait that they transform the keys of existing keyboards into fully continuous controllers. In addition to their ability to shape the sound of a sustaining note, both technologies also give the keyboardist new dimensions of articulation beyond key velocity. Even in an era of new and imaginative musical interfaces, the keyboard is likely to remain with us for the foreseeable future, and the incorporation of continuous control can bring new levels of richness and nuance to a performance.

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Section: Active Haptic Controlmentioning

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Buttons, Handles, and Keys: Advances in Continuous-Control Keyboard Instruments

McPherson

2015

Computer Music Journal

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“…The Arduino board was programmed from a connected computer, and through the Arduino's serial port the students triggered Max/MSP patches to play back samples or synthesize audio in response to the behavior proposed by the students' design of the system. As their first haptic interface the students were introduced to the Plank [20]. The Plank is a repurposed hard disk drive, where the motor coil of the reading head has been connected to the outputs from the H-Bridge.…”

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“…Utilising Planks [20], Arduino boards, sensors and electrical components for driving motors, the students created projects that simulated flying a kite [5], for example, or the buoyancy of a block of ice [7] -see Figure 1. The resulting installations were then accompanied by audio synthesized in response to the interactions with Max/MSP.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motors, Music and Motion

Bak

Verplank

Gauthier

2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Over the past four years the authors have conducted classes and workshops in design of systems for real-time digital synthesis of sound and haptic response. In response to current trends in Interaction Design education focusing on visual feedback and touchscreen interactions, the classes were developed to provide foundations for design students to leverage the potential of non-visual modes of interaction and provide them with tools and skills to develop complex multimodal, embodied experiences. These classes have been held in various institutions, have formed the basis for short workshops at conferences as well as provided tools for collaborations with external partners.In this paper we describe for the first time the extent of the project and reflect on this particular field of Interaction Design education.

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“…Verplank and colleagues, and Oboe et al have initiated separate efforts in repurposing old hard drives into force-feedback devices for music [43,55]. More recently, the work by Verplank and colleagues has been extended via a collaboration with Bak and Gauthier [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

Force-Feedback Instruments for the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana

Berdahl

Pfalz

Blandino

et al. 2018

Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems

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Digital musical instruments yielding force feedback were designed and employed in a case study with the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana. The advantages of force feedback are illuminated through the creation of a series of musical compositions. Based on these and a small number of other prior music compositions, the following compositional approaches are recommended: providing performers with precise, physically intuitive, and reconfigurable controls, using traditional controls alongside force-feedback controls as appropriate, and designing timbres that sound uncannily familiar but are nonetheless novel. Video-recorded performances illustrate these approaches, which are discussed by the composers. IntroductionApplications of force feedback for designing musical instruments have been studied since as early as 1978 at ACROE [14,17,21,36] (Chap. 8 reports on recent advancements). Such works provide a crucial reference for understanding the role that haptic technology can play in music, and these are described in detail in a preceding chapter. The wider computer music community has demonstrated a sustained interest in incorporating force-feedback technology into musical works and projects. This has been evidenced by a series of projects during recent decades.

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2002: The Plank: Designing a Simple Haptic Controller

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Buttons, Handles, and Keys: Advances in Continuous-Control Keyboard Instruments

Buttons, Handles, and Keys: Advances in Continuous-Control Keyboard Instruments

Motors, Music and Motion

Force-Feedback Instruments for the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana

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