Hedonic and ergonomic quality aspects determine a software's appeal
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Facilitating collective musical creativity
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Mobile music technology: report on an emerging community
NIME '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Reality-based interaction: a framework for post-WIMP interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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This paper describes a generative music composition application on a mobile phone. Music generation is a well-suited application domain for multi-touch and reality based interaction. Thus, we choose to implement our concept on Apple's iPhone/iPod touch. Based on selected harmonic scales the user creates a musical expression by controlling a number of virtual ants. The movement along pre-defined patterns allows users with little artistic talent to create harmonic expressions. The mobile device can act as a multi-touch input device that controls an electronic synthesizer program on a desktop computer or as a stand-alone application.