This article addresses the broad question of understanding whether and how a combination
of tactile and visual information could be used to enhance the experience of music by the …

In the past 10 years, how to visualize human emotions in communication has become an
important topic. For providing personalized customer service for enterprises from self …

This book presents the most important issues with automated systems for music emotion
recognition. These problems include emotion representation, annotation of music excerpts …

At a time when the quantity of sounds surrounding us is rapidly increasing and the access to
different recordings as well as the amount of music files available on the Internet is …

The Virtual Conductor project concerns the development of the first properly interactive
virtual orchestra conductor—a Virtual Human that can conduct a piece of music through …

While audio-driven face and gesture motion synthesis has been studied before, to our
knowledge no research has been done yet for automatic generation of musical gestures for …

Strong human personality models exist but are not easy implemented within current gaming
systems. The main stumbling block to utilizing classical personality models to drive real time …

Many of the difficulties in authoring interactive stories lie in explicitly determining how and
where narrative meaning is created. In many ways, these difficulties parallel challenges in …

Shiva's Rangoli is a tangible interactive storytelling installation that allows readers to shape
the emotional tone of a narrative by sculpting the ambience of their space. The system is …

In this paper, we describe a Model Human Cochlea (MHC), a sensory substitution technique
aimed at translating some of the emotional content expressed in music onto a haptic …