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Henri Palleis
Sound Collage Creation on a Curved Touch Display Technical Report (bib) |
We present a novel audio workspace for creating sound collages based on a vertically curved display. In contrast to flat interactive surfaces, this form factor avoids ergonomic problems of tabletop displays or vertical touch screens and enables continuous touch interaction across vertical and horizontal display parts. Additionally, it allows combining established software and hardware components with novel multi-touch interaction concepts. We propose a design rationale for developing musical workspaces on such displays and present a prototypical application that is capable of creating sound collages by blending conventional workflows with seamless touch interaction across displays and devices. The core elements of our application are visual representations of audio files, which can be edited with touch gestures and triggered by a physical pad controller on the horizontal part of the display and arranged in a step sequencer on the vertical part of the display. Furthermore, we integrated text search into the pad controller which enables to request and load sound files from a web service without switching context. |