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DAWBalloon: An Intuitive Musical Interface Using Floating Balloons

Abstract

The development of music synthesis technology has created a way to enjoy listening to music and actively manipulate it. However, it is difficult for an amateur to combine sounds or change pitches to operate a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Therefore, we focused on ultrasonic levitation and haptic feedback to develop an appropriate interface for DAW. We propose "DAWBalloon", a system that uses ultrasonic levitation arrays to visualize rhythms using floating balloons as a metaphor for musical elements and to combine sounds by manipulating the balloons. DAWBalloon realizes the intuitive manipulation of sounds in three dimensions, even for people without knowledge of music.

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Book title

Adjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Date of issue

2022/10/28

Date of presentation

2022/10/31

Location

Bend, OR, USA

DOI

10.1145/3526114.3561354

Citation

Mai Kamihiri, Ayumu Ogura, Kodai Ito, Yuichi Itoh. DAWBalloon: An Intuitive Musical Interface Using Floating Balloons, Adjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2022.

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