Computer Music Journal
B-Keeper: a beat-tracker for live performance
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Sound design and perception in walking interactions
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Toward an articulation of interaction esthetics
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Special issue on experience design - applications and reflections
Audio-tactile display of ground properties using interactive shoes
HAID'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Haptic and audio interaction design
Real-time recognition of percussive sounds by a model-based method
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special issue on musical applications of real-time signal processing
Design and evaluation of human-computer rhythmic interaction in a tutoring system
Computer Music Journal
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Using rhythmic patterns as an input method
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Synthesis of Hand Clapping Sounds
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
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Walking is a natural rhythmic activity that has become of interest as a means of interacting with software systems such as computer games. Therefore, designing multimodal walking interactions calls for further examination. This exploratory study presents a system capable of different kinds of interactions based on varying the temporal characteristics of the output, using the sound of human walking as the input. The system either provides a direct synthesis of a walking sound based on the detected amplitude envelope of the user's footstep sounds, or provides a continuous synthetic walking sound as a stimulus for the walking human, either with a fixed tempo or a tempo adapting to the human gait. In a pilot experiment, the different interaction modes are studied with respect to their effect on the walking tempo and the experience of the subjects. The results tentatively outline different user profiles in interacting with such a system.