Humans have been developing and playing musical instruments for millennia. With
technological advancements, instruments were becoming ever more sophisticated. In recent …

It is widely accepted that acoustic and digital musical instruments shape the cognitive
processes of the performer on both embodied and conceptual levels, ultimately influencing …

The design of a digital musical instrument is often informed by the needs of the first
performance or composition. Following the initial performances, the designer frequently …

This paper proposes a new class of augmented musical instruments,“Smart Instruments”,
which are characterized by embedded computational intelligence, bidirectional wireless …

Guitars are physical instruments that require skillful two-handed use. Their use is also
supported by diverse digital and physical resources, such as videos and chord charts. To …

This paper describes two augmented nylon-string guitar projects developed in different
institutions. GuitarAMI uses sensors to modify the classical guitars constraints while GuiaRT …

We propose an approach to electronic music teaching centered on user-modifiable open
technologies rather than closed, proprietary solutions. This approach offers students the …

Guitarists struggle to play their instruments while simultaneously using additional computing
devices (ie, encumbered interaction). We explored designs with guitarists through co-design …

Playing musical instruments involves producing gradually more challenging body
movements and transitions, where the kinematic constraints of the body play a crucial role in …

In this paper we examine how the term'Audio Augmented Reality'(AAR) is used in the
literature, and how the concept is used in practice. In particular, AAR seems to refer to a …