All Outputs (52)

Understanding user-defined mapping design in mid-air musical performance (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Brown, D., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2018). Understanding user-defined mapping design in mid-air musical performance. https://doi.org/10.1145/3212721.3212810

© 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to Association for Computing Machinery. Modern gestural interaction and motion capture technology is frequently incorporated into Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) to enable n... Read More about Understanding user-defined mapping design in mid-air musical performance.

Sonifying stochastic walks on biomolecular energy landscapes (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Arbon, R. E., Jones, A. J., Bratholm, L. A., Mitchell, T., & Glowacki, D. R. (2018, June). Sonifying stochastic walks on biomolecular energy landscapes. Paper presented at International Conference On Auditory Display 2018, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, US

Translating the complex, multi-dimensional data produced by simulations of biomolecules into an intelligible form is a major challenge in computational chemistry and biology. The so-called “free energy landscape” is amongst the most fundamental conce... Read More about Sonifying stochastic walks on biomolecular energy landscapes.

A cognitive dimensions approach for the design of an interactive generative score editor (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hunt, S., Mitchell, T., & Nash, C. (2018, May). A cognitive dimensions approach for the design of an interactive generative score editor. Paper presented at Fourth International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Montréal, Canada

This paper describes how the Cognitive Dimensions of Notation can guide the design of algorithmic composition tools. Prior research has also used the cognitive dimensions for analysing interaction design for algorithmic composition software. This wor... Read More about A cognitive dimensions approach for the design of an interactive generative score editor.

Thoughts on interactive generative music composition (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hunt, S., Mitchell, T., & Nash, C. (2017, September). Thoughts on interactive generative music composition. Paper presented at 2nd Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

The ability for machines to compose novel, interesting and human-esque music is an important and recurring theme in the history of computer music. Modern staff notation remains the most common tool for music composition, and despite the emergence and... Read More about Thoughts on interactive generative music composition.

How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hunt, S., Mitchell, T., & Nash, C. (2017, May). How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure?. Paper presented at Third International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, A Coruña, Spain

Standard western notation supports the understanding and performance of music, but has limited provisions for revealing overall musical characteristics and structure. This paper presents several visualisers for highlighting and providing insights int... Read More about How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure?.

A user experience review of music interaction evaluations (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Brown, D., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2017, May). A user experience review of music interaction evaluations. Paper presented at International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Copenhagen, Denmark

The need for thorough evaluations is an emerging area of interest and importance in music interaction research. As a large degree of DMI evaluation is concerned with exploring the subjective experience: ergonomics, action-sound mappings and control i... Read More about A user experience review of music interaction evaluations.

Expressive gestural personality (2017)
Book Chapter
van den Berg, C., Heap, I., Stark, A., & Mitchell, T. (2017). Expressive gestural personality. In K. Bjorn (Ed.), Push Turn Move: Interface Design in Electronic Music. Denmark: BJOOKS

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Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Brown, D., Renney, N., Stark, A., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2016, July). Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion. Paper presented at The International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME2016, Brisbane, Australia

Camera-based motion tracking has become a popular enabling technology for gestural human-computer interaction. However, the approach suffers from several limitations, which have been shown to be particularly problematic when employed within musical c... Read More about Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion.

Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Mitchell, T., Bennett, P., Tew, P., Davies, E., & Madgwick, S. (2016, May). Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems SIGCHI2016, San Jose, CA, USA

Interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) is a powerful human-machine optimisation procedure for evolving solutions to complex design problems. In this paper we introduce the novel concept of Tangible Interactive Evolutionary Computation (TIEC), lev... Read More about Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation.

Danceroom spectroscopy: At the frontiers of physics, performance, interactive art and technology (2016)
Journal Article
Mitchell, T., Hyde, J., Tew, P., & Glowacki, D. R. (2016). Danceroom spectroscopy: At the frontiers of physics, performance, interactive art and technology. Leonardo, 49(2), 138-147. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00924

© 2016 ISAST. Danceroom Spectroscopy is an interactive audiovisual art installation and performance system driven by rigorous algorithms commonly used to simulate and analyze nanoscale atomic dynamics. danceroom Spectroscopy interprets humans as “ene... Read More about Danceroom spectroscopy: At the frontiers of physics, performance, interactive art and technology.

GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, D., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2016). GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor

This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their u... Read More about GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor.

Evolving atomic aesthetics and dynamics (2016)
Journal Article
Davies, E., Tew, P., Glowacki, D., Smith, J., & Mitchell, T. (2016). Evolving atomic aesthetics and dynamics. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9596, 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31008-4_2

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The depiction of atoms and molecules in scientific literature owes as much to the creative imagination of scientists as it does to scientific theory and experimentation. danceroom Spectroscopy (dS... Read More about Evolving atomic aesthetics and dynamics.

Simple synchronisation for open sound control (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Madgwick, S. O. H., Mitchell, T. J., Barreto, C., & Freed, A. (2015, September). Simple synchronisation for open sound control. Paper presented at 41st International Computer Music Conference 2015, Texas, USA

Clock synchronisation is a mature and important aspect of distributed computing systems. Despite the importance of accurate timing in music, there are relatively few widely applicable synchronisation solutions available to computer music practitioner... Read More about Simple synchronisation for open sound control.

Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hyde, J. I., Mitchell, T. J., Tew, P., & Glowacki, D. R. (2014, December). Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument. Paper presented at 17th Generative Art Conference GA2014, Rome, Italy

Molecular Music is an offshoot of a long-term collaborative project, the multi- award winning danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)[1]. dS has its roots in computational molecular dynamics, and was originally conceived to serve as an interactive platform for m... Read More about Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument.

Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Rutter, E. K., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. J. (2014, September). Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices. Paper presented at The 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) joint with the 11th Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC), Athens, Greece

This paper details the development of Turnector, a control system based upon tangible widgets that are manipulated on the touchscreen of a capacitive touch device. Turnector widgets are modelled on rotary faders and aim to connect the user to paramet... Read More about Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices.

Controlling physically based virtual musical instruments using the gloves (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Serafin, S., Trento, S., Grani, F., Perner-Wilson, H., Madgwick, S., & Mitchell, T. J. (2014, June). Controlling physically based virtual musical instruments using the gloves. Paper presented at International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Goldsmiths, University of London

In this paper we propose an empirical method to develop mapping strategies between a gestural-based interface (the Gloves) and physically based sound synthesis models. An experiment was conducted to investigate which gestures listeners associate with... Read More about Controlling physically based virtual musical instruments using the gloves.

AlphaSphere: From prototype to product (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Place, A., Lacey, L., & Mitchell, T. J. (2014, June). AlphaSphere: From prototype to product. Paper presented at 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Goldsmiths, University of London

This paper explores the design process of the AlphaSphere, an experimental new musical instrument that has transitioned into scale production and international distribution. Initially, the design intentions and engineering processes are covered. The... Read More about AlphaSphere: From prototype to product.

Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, T. J., Madgwick, S., Rankine, S., Hilton, G., Freed, A., & Nix, A. (2014). Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (251-256). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1178875

Wireless technology is growing increasingly prevalent in the development of new interfaces for live music performance. However, with a number of different wireless technologies operating in the 2.4 GHz band, there is a high risk of interference and c... Read More about Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance.

A GPU-accelerated immersive audio-visual framework for interaction with molecular dynamics using consumer depth sensors (2014)
Journal Article
Glowacki, D. R., O'Connor, M., Calabró, G., Price, J., Tew, P., Mitchell, T., …McIntosh-Smith, S. (2014). A GPU-accelerated immersive audio-visual framework for interaction with molecular dynamics using consumer depth sensors. Faraday Discussions, 169, 63-87. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4fd00008k

© the Partner Organisations 2014. With advances in computational power, the rapidly growing role of computational/simulation methodologies in the physical sciences, and the development of new human-computer interaction technologies, the field of inte... Read More about A GPU-accelerated immersive audio-visual framework for interaction with molecular dynamics using consumer depth sensors.

Using human energy fields to sculpt real-time molecular dynamics (2013)
Book Chapter
Glowacki, D., Tew, P., Hyde, J., Kriefman, L., Mitchell, T., Price, J., & McIntosh-Smith, S. (2013). Using human energy fields to sculpt real-time molecular dynamics. In L. Fruk, & P. Weibel (Eds.), Molecular Aesthetics. UK: MIT Press

Chemistry has historically placed a great deal of emphasis on “structure function” relationships, where a molecule’s function and associated properties are understood with reference to how its atoms are arranged. However, the way we imagine molecules... Read More about Using human energy fields to sculpt real-time molecular dynamics.