This book explores interactive systems for performing, composing, analysing, and learning about music, taking into account new interaction technologies such as the iPad, Wii, iPhone, Kinect, and Arduino, and newly relevant theories such as embodied cognition.

InhaltsangabeMusic Interaction.- Should Music Interaction Be Easy.- Amateur Musicians, Long-term Engagement, and HCI.- Affective Musical Interaction: Influencing Users' Behaviour and Experiences with Music.- Chasing a Feeling: Experience in Computer Support Jamming.- The Haptic Bracelets: Learning Multi-limb Rhythm Skills from Haptic Stimuli while Reading.- Piano Technique as a Case Study in Expressive Gestural Interaction.- Live Music-making: A Rich Open Task Requires a Rich Open Interface.- A New Interaction Strategy for Musical Timbre Design.- Pulsed Melodic Processing - The Use of Melodies in Affective Computations for increased Processing Transparency.- Computer Musicking: HCI, CSCW, and Collaborative Digital Musical Interaction.- Song Walker Harmony Space: Embodied Interaction Design for Complex Musical Skills.- Evolutionary and Generative Music Informs Music HCI - and vice versa.- Video Analysis for Evaluating Music Interaction: Musical Tabletops.- Towards a Participatory Approach for Interaction Design based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Case Study from Music Interaction.- Appropriate and Complementary Rhythmic Improvisation in an Interactive Music System.- Index.

InhaltsangabeMusic Interaction: Understanding Music and Human-Computer Interaction.- Should Music Interaction Be Easy?.- Amateur Musicians, Long-term Engagement, and HCI.- Affective Musical Interaction: Influencing Users' Behaviour and Experiences with Music.- Chasing a Feeling: Experience in Computer Support Jamming.- The Haptic Bracelets: Learning Multi-limb Rhythm Skills from Haptic Stimuli whilst Reading.- Piano Technique as a Case Study in Expressive Gestural Interaction.- Live Music-making: A Rich Open Task Requires a Rich Open Interface.- A New Interaction Strategy for Musical Timbre Design.- Pulsed Melodic Processing - The Use of Melodies in Affective Computations for Increased Processing Transparency.- Computer Musicking: HCI, CSCW, and Collaborative Digital Musical Interaction.- Song Walker Harmony Space: Embodied Interaction Design for Complex Musical Skills.- Evolutionary and Generative Music Informs Music HCI - and vice versa.- Video Analysis for Evaluating Music Interaction: Musical Tabletops.- Towards a Participatory Approach for Interaction Design based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Case Study from Music Interaction.- Appropriate and Complementary Rhythmic Improvisation in an Interactive Music System.- Index.