oroboro

A Collaborative Controller with Interpersonal Haptic Feedback
Presented as a demo at NIME'05 in Vancouver, Canada

Jennifer Carlile - CCRMA, Dept. of Music, Stanford University
Björn Hartmann - HCI Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University

OROBORO is a novel collaborative controller which focuses on musical performance as social experience by exploring synchronized actions of two musicians operating a single instrument. Each performer uses two paddle mechanisms - one for hand orientation sensing and one for servo-motor actuated feedback. We introduce a haptic mirror in which the movement of one performer’s sensed hand is used to induce movement of the partner’s actuated hand and vice versa. We describe theoretical motivation, and hardware/software implementation.

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NIME'05 demo report (pdf)
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