TECH: Data gloves as soft keyboard
Pieter Hintjens
gloves. The idea is to replace the awful physical keyboard with a virtual
one, whose shape and function is purely defined in software.
Has this been done already? Any pointers to existing info?
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Pieter A. Hintjens
Dan Newcombe
writes:
I guess the only problem would be knowing exactly where the keys were, as
being just an inch off could really make you typing look like: swisoneuio
t9 sapw :)
I think something similar has been done in MIDI so that you have a virtual
piano keyboard.
-Dan
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Dan Newcombe newc...@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
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"And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion
[You might try researching Tod Machover's work. Below is a list of
magazine citations:
Hyperinstruments -
Tod Machover Citation List
Thompson, John. (1994, Sept.) Data bass: empowering the amateur musician.
Omni. v16(n12). p20(1).
Tod Machover and his colleagues at MIT's Media Lab have invented
Drum-Boy, a percussion system consisting of a keyboard, a drum
synthesizer, and a Macintosh II computer. The system allows access
to a wide range of percussive sounds played through the keyboard.
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Levenson, Thomas. (1994, July-August). Taming the hypercello.
Sciences. v34(n4). p15(3).
Yo Yo Ma performed Tod Machover's Begin Again Again on the
hypercello at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. The hypercello is an
electronic music system created by integrating traditional musical
instruments with arrays of sensors and devices. Tod Machover and his
team at the MIT Media Lab have built these hyperinstruments. Despite
a number of technical problems even hours before the concert, the
team was able to repair things to ensure a successful concert.
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Goldberg, Joe. (1993, Sept.). Quartet for the end of time: apocalyptic music as
the millennium approaches. Billboard. v105(n38). p42(2).
The success of Gorecki Symphony No. 3 is attributed to the
collective fear of the people about the increasingly danger of
existing in earth and the uncertainty of the coming millennium. The
music is tonal and melodic, cast in a religious mood. These
conditions also explain the continuing trend towards minimalism in
the contemporary classical music as reflected in the works of modern
composers such as John Tavener, Tod Machover, Philip Glass and Steve
Martland.
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Hayashi, Alden. (1992, Oct. ). A little byte music. (use of hyperinstruments) (M
IT Reporter). Technology Review. v95(n7). p10(2).
Musician Tod Machover invented hyperinstruments to suit his
compositions which require unsynchronized tempos. The
hyperinstruments are actually electronic extensions of traditional
instruments such as the guitar and the violin.
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Malitz, Nancy. (August, 1992). Hyper reality. (composer Tod Machover) (Cover Sto
ry). Opera News. v57(n2). p28(3).
Tod Machover integrates high technology and traditional Western art
music as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Media Lab. Machover is currently working on two operas: a virtual
reality installation piece, and a more traditional opera on social
themes for the Houston Grand Opera.
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Corcoran, Elizabeth.
Sound bytes: electronic music gains a human touch.
Scientific American. July, 1991. v265(n1). p111(2).
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Wakeling, Dennis. W.
Machover: VALIS. Opera Quarterly. Summer, 1990. v7(n2). p195(5).
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Porter, Andrew.
Machover: Valis. New-Yorker. July 31, 1989. v65(n24). p67(2).
-T.E.]
Pieter Hintjens
50-50 over whether this is sci-fi or actually possible. Keep sending me
your ideas; at some future point I'll post a virtual keyboard FAQ. :-)
JKim
NASA/MSFC to develop a device called 'Virtual Keyboard.' This project deals
with biofeedback to input keys to computers. Our first model uses eye
scanning, and we are planning to include other means. Let me know please.
Jonn
In article <3a0ic2$d...@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, pah...@eunet.be (Pieter
Hintjens) wrote:
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