Ayaka Ebisu
Yoichi Ochiai
ABSTRACT
A sense of rhythm is essential for playing instruments. However, many beginners learning how to play musical instruments have difficulty with rhythm. We have proposed "Stimulated Percussions," which is a musical instrument performance system using electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) in the past. In this study, we apply it to the learning of rhythm. By the movement of muscles stimulated using EMS, users are able to acquire what kind of arms and legs to move at what timing. In addition to small percussion instruments such as castanets, users can play the rhythm patterns of drums that the require the simultaneous movement of their limbs.
- Ayaka Ebisu, Satoshi Hashizume, Kenta Suzuki, Akira Ishii, Mose Sakashita, and Yoichi Ochiai. 2017. Stimulated Percussions: Method to Control Human for Learning Music by Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In Proceedings of the 8th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 33, 5 pages. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Emi Tamaki, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto. 2011. PossessedHand: Techniques for Controlling Human Hands Using Electrical Muscles Stimuli. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 543--552. Google ScholarDigital Library
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Building a feedback loop between electrical stimulation and percussion learning
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