Music technology and alternate controllers for clients with complex needs

A Ward, T Davis, A Bevan - Music Therapy Perspectives, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Music technology can provide unique opportunities to allow access to music-making for
clients with complex needs. While there is a growing trend of research in this area …

BendableSound: An elastic multisensory surface using touch-based interactions to assist children with severe autism during music therapy

FL Cibrian, O Peña, D Ortega, M Tentori - International Journal of Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Neurological Music Therapy uses live music to improve the sensorimotor regulation
of children with severe autism. However, they often lack musical training and their …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptive touchless whole-body interaction for casual ubiquitous musicalactivities

S Chakraborty, A Yaseen, J Timoney… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Within the context of the initiatives targeting ubimus interaction metaphors, we demonstrate
a camera-based gesture recognition system that enables individual and collaborative virtual …

Interactive sonification to assist children with autism during motor therapeutic interventions

FL Cibrian, J Ley-Flores, JW Newbold, A Singh… - Personal and Ubiquitous …, 2021 - Springer
Interactive sonification is an effective tool used to guide individuals when practicing
movements. Little research has shown the use of interactive sonification in supporting motor …

Understanding the musical interaction of children with autism spectrum disorder using elastic display

I Monarca, M Tentori, FL Cibrian - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2023 - Springer
Musical interaction greatly benefits children's development. However, case studies reporting
musical interactions with children, especially those with neurodevelopmental disorders, like …

Towards E-textiles in augmentative and alternative communication–user scenarios developed by speech and language therapists

TA Vihriälä, R Raisamo, T Ihalainen… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose E-textiles have been the focus of interest in health technology, but little research
has been done so far on how they could support persons with complex communication …

A step towards identifying the sound preferences of children with autism

FL Cibrian, J Mercado, L Escobedo… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Music-based therapies are increasingly being used to support children with autism with
promising clinical results. However, we have a little understanding of which are the most …

Perceptual Relevance of Haptic Feedback during Virtual Plucking, Bowing and Rubbing of Physically-Based Musical Resonators

MG Onofrei, F Fontana, S Serafin - Arts, 2023 - mdpi.com
The physics-based design and realization of a digital musical interface asks for the modeling
and implementation of the contact-point interaction with the performer. Musical instruments …

Design and evaluation of passive RFID-based music player textile prototypes

A Shaikh, A Vianto, S Jabari, R Xiao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Music has always been an important way of expressing ourselves. Creating music from
bodily interaction has gained much attention: Various gestures, touches, hand and foot …

Multisensory plucked instrument modeling in Unity3D: From Keytar to accurate string prototyping

F Fontana, R Paisa, R Ranon, S Serafin - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Keytar is a plucked guitar simulation mockup developed with Unity3D that provides auditory,
visual, and haptic feedback to the player through a Phantom Omni robotic arm. Starting from …