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Towards a real-time system for teaching novices correct violin bowing technique

Type: conference paper

Authors: Janet van der Linden, Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Jon Bird

Abstract
We describe the ongoing development of a system to support the teaching of good posture and bowing technique to novice violin players. Using an inertial motion capture system we can track in real-time: i) a player’s bowing action (and measure how it deviates from a target trajectory); ii) whether the player is holding their violin correctly. We detail some initial experiments that show that vibrotactile feedback can guide arm movements in one and two dimensions. We then present some preliminary findings from integrating the motion capture and feedback components into a prototype real-time training system. The advantages of vibrotactile feedback are that: i) it does not use the students’ visual and auditory systems which are already involved in the activity of music making; ii) it is an intuitive way to guide body movements.

URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5356123/

Associated tags
metadata ▸ material ▸ Correct Violin Bowing (attr.)
metadata ▸ contribution ▸ Evaluation
metadata ▸ year ▸ 2009
technological dimension ▸ applications ▸ Desktop
technological dimension ▸ input technologies ▸ Camera
technological dimension ▸ input technologies ▸ Tangibles, wearables
technological dimension ▸ system outputs ▸ Haptic
musical dimension ▸ activities ▸ Performing
pedagogical dimension ▸ learning theories ▸ Cognitivism
pedagogical dimension ▸ users ▸ Pre-school, primary
pedagogical dimension ▸ venues ▸ Lab