The reacTable

Jordà, Sergi; Kaltenbrunner, Martin; Geiger, Gunter; Alonso, María Ángeles

doi:10.1145/1179849.1179963

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“…These properties match well with the affordances of tabletop systems. In fact, several tabletoplike systems have been created for music performance and audio synthesis (but not editing), including Audiopad [20] and Reactable [14], both of which employ tangible tags as input devices, and a multi-touch system by Davidson and Han [6] that does not integrate physical artifacts.…”

Section: Background: Collaborative Audio Editingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic mapping of physical controls for tabletop groupware

Fiebrink

Morris

2009

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Multi-touch interactions are a promising means of control for interactive tabletops. However, a lack of precision and tactile feedback makes multi-touch controls a poor fit for tasks where precision and feedback are crucial. We present an approach that offers precise control and tactile feedback for tabletop systems through the integration of dynamically re-mappable physical controllers with the multi-touch environment, and we demonstrate this approach in our collaborative tabletop audio editing environment. An observational user study demonstrates that our approach can provide needed precision and feedback, while preserving the collaborative benefits of a shared directmanipulation surface. Our observations also suggest that direct touch and physical controllers can offer complementary benefits, and that providing both allows users to adjust their control strategy based on considerations including precision, convenience, visibility, and user role.

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Section: Background: Collaborative Audio Editingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic mapping of physical controls for tabletop groupware

Fiebrink

Morris

2009

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…The Reactable is an instrument, which seeks to be collaborative, multiuser, intuitive, giving no manual or instructions, sonically challenging, non-intimidating instrument, learnable and masterable, suitable both for novices and advanced electronic musicians, for home use, studio or live performance of electronic music [24], [25], [26]. Regarding its functionality, Reactable is based on a translucent round table on which, users interact by moving tokens, changing their position and controlling with these actions the topological structure and the parameters of a sound synthesizer.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover beneath the table, there is a projector dynamically drawing animations on its surface, providing a visual feedback of the state of the synthesizer [24], [26]. Every token brinks a special fiducial marker that is been read by a camera, placed beneath the surface.…”

Section: Fig 1 the Reactable Architecture And Live Action Snapshotmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[25], [27], [28]. This data is send to connection manager software that will make the appropriate calculations about tokens' state, based on orientation and proximity, producing control data for the sound and visual feedback [24], [26]. Sound synthesizer is based on modular synthesis principals whereas every token represents a module and their orientation will dynamically set up the desirable connections of these modules [24], [25], [26].…”

Section: Fig 1 the Reactable Architecture And Live Action Snapshotmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spyractable: A Tangible User Interface Modular Synthesizer

Potidis

Spyrou

2014

Human-Computer Interaction. Advanced Interaction Modalities and Techniques

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Abstract. The purpose of this paper is the exploration of the possibilities that Tangible User Interface (TUI) may offer in the area of sound synthesis, by reconfiguring the functionality of the existing TUI tabletop musical instrument called "Reactable" and redesigning most features, adjusting it to a synthesizers needs. For this research we analyzed sound properties, physics and formation, as well as how human used these features to synthesize sound. Afterwards we present the properties and advantages of TUI technology, and its use in sound and music, distinguishing Reactable, for being the most even musical instrument using TUI. As an outcome we develop and present an initial prototype modular synthesizer, called Spyractable. Finally, we subject Spyractable to users' evaluation tests and we present the outcomes, making suggestions for further investigation and design guidelines.

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“…Playing music with instruments or digital systems or devices (such as, for example the reacTable* [19]) is usually a focused task. In contrast, monitoring and controlling music is an everyday task that is often performed as a secondary task.…”

Section: User Interfaces For Audio Player Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing Input Modalities for Peripheral Interaction: A Case Study on Peripheral Music Control

Hausen¹,

Richter²,

Hemme³

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In graphical user interfaces, every application usually asks for the user's full attention during interaction with it. Even marginal side activities often force the user to switch windows, which results in attention shifts and increased cognitive load. Peripheral interaction addresses this problem by providing input facilities in the periphery of the user's attention by relying on divided attention and human capabilities such as proprioception and spatial memory. Recent work shows promising results by shifting tasks to the periphery for parallel task execution. Up to now, most of these interfaces rely on tag-based objects, tokens or wearable devices, which need to be grasped and manipulated, e.g., by turning, moving or pressing the device.To explore this design space further, we implemented three modalities for peripheral interaction with a desktop audio player application -graspable interaction, touch and freehand gestures. In an eight-week in-situ deployment, we compared the three modalities to each other and to media keys (as the state-ofthe-art approach). We found that all modalities can be successfully used in the (visual and attentional) periphery and reduce the amount of cognitive load when interacting with an audio player.With this work we intend to (1) illustrate the variety of possible modalities beyond graspable interfaces, (2) give insights on manual peripheral interaction in general and the respective modalities in particular and (3) elaborate on paper based prototypes for the evaluation of peripheral interaction.

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The reacTable

Cited by 37 publications

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Dynamic mapping of physical controls for tabletop groupware

Dynamic mapping of physical controls for tabletop groupware

Spyractable: A Tangible User Interface Modular Synthesizer

Comparing Input Modalities for Peripheral Interaction: A Case Study on Peripheral Music Control

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