Title
Tactile Teacher: Sensing Finger Tapping in Piano Playing
Abstract
In a piano lesson, a student often imitates the teacher--s playing in terms of speed, dynamics, and fingering. While this learning model leverages one's visual and even audial perception for emulation, it still lacks an important component of piano playing -- the tactile sensation. We seek to convey the tactile sensations of the teacher's keystrokes and then signal the student's corresponding fingers. We implemented an instrumented fingerless glove called Tactile Teacher to detect finger taps on hard surfaces. Since finger taps generate acoustic signals and cause vibrations, we embedded three vibration sensors on the glove and use machine learning algorithms to analyze the data from the sensors. After a brief training procedure, this prototype can accurately identify single finger tap in a very good performance at above 89% accuracy, and two finger taps resulted in accuracy around 85%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2677199.2680554
Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
wearable computing,miscellaneous,piano learning,sensing,tactile sensations
Vibration sensor,Wearable computer,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Emulation,Piano,Tapping,Piano playing,Perception
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chih-Pin Hsiao1204.74
Richard Li2102.19
Xinyan Yan3385.32
Ellen Yi-luen Do473186.31