Perspectives on the design of musical auditory interfaces

Leplatre, G. and Brewster, S.A. (1998) Perspectives on the design of musical auditory interfaces. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, 4, pp. 227-239.

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of music as a communication medium in auditory human-computer interfaces. So far, psychoacoustics has had a great influence on the development of auditory interfaces, directly and through music cognition. We suggest that a better understanding of the processes involved in the perception of actual musical excerpts should allow musical auditory interface designers to exploit the communicative potential of music. In this respect, we argue that the real advantage of music as a communication medium relies on the richness of its specifically musical meanings rather than on its formal structure. Finally, we propose a method for automating the design of musical auditory interfaces, in order to make this design possible to non-musicians designers.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: Leplatre, G., and Brewster, S. A. (1998). Perspectives on the Design of Musical Auditory Interfaces. ESCOM Symposium on Anticipation, Cognition and Music. Partial Proceedings of CASYS'98, Second International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, HEC-Liège, Belgium, August 10-14, 1998. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Volume 4, pp. 227-239, 1999, ISSN 1373-5411, ISBN 2-9600179-5-1, Published by CHAOS.
• Keywords: human-computer interaction, auditory interfaces, music perception
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Brewster, Professor Stephen
• Authors: Leplatre, G., and Brewster, S.A.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software; M Music and Books on Music > M Music
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Journal Name: International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems
• Publisher: CHAOS
• ISSN: 1373-5411
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 1996 CHAOS
• First Published: First published in International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems 4:227-239
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the editor's permission