Titulo Estágio
Designing a NIME
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The Interaction Design and Game Design areas constitute rich fields of study, with many challenges and methodological open issues. One of the richest challenges in HCI is the design and study of New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIMEs).
The design of a NIME involves many aspects of study in HCI. From the creative side of coming up with an interesting proposal that influences how people express themselves and interact socially, to the many aspects of designing the experience with a physical or virtual object, the affordances, constraints, mappings, primary (immediate) and secondary (result or effect) feedback circles, that influence accessibility, the interactions between people while playing, the expressive range and particular musical characteristics. Many aspects can be studied and considered for a successful design. But a musical instrument’s design is not complete without composing and playing a piece that can show its characteristics.
Objetivo
In this project we want to design and prototype a new instrument for musical expression. The will be complete freedom for pursuing various design avenues (from a simple player to a collective instrument, from a hard practice approach to a casual, immediate involvement, improvisational device, all possibilities are open.
Main deliverables:
a) An assessment of the current state-of-the-art in NIMEs, mostly through conference proceedings, journal papers and design cases;
b) A playable NIME, designed, studied, evolved and tuned;
c) Evaluate the user experience with an actual musical composition created for the instrument.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
A1. (M1-M3) State of the art research - research and document the relevant SoA, publications and software review, for the study of the problem at hand; detailed characterisation of the problem or design challenge, stating specific goals;
A2. (M3 - M4) Design Proposal - Conceiving of a design proposal, interaction models and user interface for the proposed NIME, mappings, feedback cycles, etc; State assumptions and milestones for the rest of the project;
A3. (M1-M4) Paper - production of a synthesis of state of the art and conceptual design proposal for a research paper;
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
A4. (M5 - M9) Prototyping - implementation of a proof-of-concept prototype, tuning and corrections based on evaluation results;
A5. (M9) Evaluation - definition of evaluation criteria and method; Creation of a performance or musical piece; Performing evaluations and analysis of results;
A6. (M10 - M11) Dissertation - Dissertation with reflection on process and knowledge production
Condições
An appreciation for Interaction Design, Interface Technologies and musical knowledge will be required.
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Orientador
Licínio Gomes Roque
lir@dei.uc.pt 📩