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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Cardiff Metropolitan University (joint submission with University of South Wales and University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
The FireFader: Simple, Open-Source, and Reconfigurable Haptic Force Feedback for Musicians
This paper suggests that a simple haptic force-feedback device named ‘FireFader’ can be optimized for introducing musicians to haptics. ‘FireFader’ consists of only open-source hardware and open-source software elements and is relatively easy for users to re-purpose into new projects.
While traditional musical instruments provide haptic touch-oriented feedback, this kind of feedback is lacking in many digital musical instruments. This is one reason why the community is currently interested in endowing digital musical instruments with haptic feedback. The authors believe that the ‘FireFader’ is the only completely open-source system for building haptic musical instruments with force feedback. The paper suggests and simplifies a novel approach in designing and interacting with gesture interfaces for music performance.
The conference version of the paper won one of two Best Paper awards at the Sound and Music Computing Conference (2012, Denmark) and, as a result, the authors were invited to submit a revised and expanded version for publication in The Computer Music Journal, the world-leading peer-reviewed journal in Computer Music.
