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The reacTable: exploring the synergy between live music performance and tabletop tangible interfaces

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Günter Geiger,

Martin KaltenbrunnerAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction

Pages 139 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/1226969.1226998

Published: 15 February 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In recent years we have seen a proliferation of musical tables. Believing that this is not just the result of a tabletop trend, in this paper we first discuss several of the reasons for which live music performance and HCI in general, and musical instruments and tabletop interfaces in particular, can lead to a fertile two-way cross-pollination that can equally benefit both fields. After that, we present the reac Table, a musical instrument based on a tabletop interface that exemplifies several of these potential achievements.

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The reacTable: exploring the synergy between live music performance and tabletop tangible interfaces
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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TEI '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction

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