Smart Musical Instruments: vision, design principles, and future directions

L Turchet - IEEE Access, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart musical instruments (SMIs) are a family of Internet of Musical Things devices for music
creation. They are characterized by sensors, actuators, embedded intelligence, and wireless …

A low-cost pressure sensor matrix for activity monitoring in stroke patients using artificial intelligence

A Fatema, S Poondla, RB Mishra… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Muscle weakening is a common consequence of stroke and can result in a reduction in
physical activity of the affected body part. Therapy includes a range of physical exercises …

Let's frets! Assisting guitar students during practice via capacitive sensing

K Marky, A Weiß, A Matviienko, F Brandherm… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Learning a musical instrument requires regular exercise. However, students are often on
their own during their practice sessions due to the limited time with their teachers, which …

An ubiquitous smart guitar system for collaborative musical practice

L Turchet, M Barthet - Journal of New Music Research, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Ubiquitous music (UbiMus) proposes to study how social interaction with mobile and
distributed technologies can converge to form novel creativity support tools and music …

Motor performance in violin bowing: Effects of attentional focus on acoustical, physiological and physical parameters of a sound-producing action

E Allingham, B Burger, C Wöllner - Journal of New Music Research, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Violin bowing is a specialised sound-producing action, which may be affected by
psychological performance techniques. In sport, attentional focus impacts motor …

Towards a semantic architecture for the internet of musical things

L Turchet, F Viola, G Fazekas… - 2018 23rd Conference of …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Musical Things is an emerging research area that relates to the network of
Musical Things, which are computing devices embedded in physical objects dedicated to …

Evaluation of a sound quality visual feedback system for bow learning technique in violin beginners: An EEG study

AD Blanco, R Ramirez - Frontiers in Psychology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Current music technologies can assist in the process of learning to play a musical instrument
and provide objective measures for evaluating the improvement of music students in …

Smart instruments: Towards an ecosystem of interoperable devices connecting performers and audiences

L Turchet, A McPherson, C Fischione - Proceedings of Sound and …, 2016‏ - iris.unitn.it
This paper proposes a new class of augmented musical instruments,“Smart Instruments”,
which are characterized by embedded computational intelligence, bidirectional wireless …

Real-time hit classification in a Smart Cajón

L Turchet, A McPherson, M Barthet - Frontiers in ICT, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Smart musical instruments are a class of IoT devices for music making, which encompass
embedded intelligence as well as wireless connectivity. In previous work, we established …

Real-time aural and visual feedback for improving violin intonation

LS Pardue, A McPherson - Frontiers in Psychology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Playing with correct intonation is one of the major challenges for a string player. A player
must learn how to physically reproduce a target pitch, but before that, the player must learn …