The rapid evolution of electronics, digital media, advanced materials, and other areas of technology, is opening up unprecedented opportunities for musical interface inventors and designers. The possibilities afforded by these new technologies carry ...

Silver is an authoring tool that allows novice users to edit digital video. A variety of AI techniques provide high-level metadata from the audio signal and video, including shot boundaries and a time-synchronized transcript. Silver uses this metadata ...

We describe a novel musical controller which acquires live video input from the user's face, extracts facial feature parameters using a computer vision algorithm, and converts these to expressive musical effects. The controller allows the user to modify ...

Roomotes gives people remote control of their physical surroundings through Web phones. The system manages virtual rooms that mirror physical rooms. Roomotes presents not only the devices present in a room, but also the people. Using Roomotes' real ...

Noise level in public spaces sometimes makes imposible to focus on particular sound information. In other cases, such focus is needed even when environmental sound information is also important. In this paper, we describe the use of bone vibration as an ...

In this paper, we describe designing a prototype car radio interface used for playing streaming audio downloaded from the Internet. Combining compelling features from broadcast radio, audio players, and audio mining technology can produce a new user ...

Time-ART is a tool that helps a user in conducting empirical multimedia(video/sound) data analysis as an exploratory iterative process. Time-ART helps a user in (1) identifying seemingly interesting parts, (2) annotating them both textually and visually ...

We present a participatory design methodology for developing an online community supported Modern Greek language course. The students of the classes collaborate in transcribing real audio lessons, publish and peer review shared notes. Participatory ...