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Juke Cylinder: Sound Image Augmentation to Metamorphose Hands into a Musical Instrument

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This paper proposes a piece of interactive art installation named the “Juke Cylinder” to augment sound images through hand interaction and to metamorphose hands into a musical instrument. To augment a sound image onto users’ hands, we used a parametric loudspeaker because it can localize a sound image on a reflecting surface. When users interact with our system, they perceive that their hands are metamorphosed into various musical instruments such as a guitar, a piano, or a synthesizer. Users can control the pitches of the sounds depending on their hand interactions such as with real musical instruments. In a demonstration at a media art exhibition, this system provided visitors with extraordinary sound experiences, and we received positive feedback from them.

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Ueta, M., Hoshuyama, O., Narumi, T., Sakurai, S., Tanikawa, T., Hirose, M. (2012). Juke Cylinder: Sound Image Augmentation to Metamorphose Hands into a Musical Instrument. In: Nijholt, A., Romão, T., Reidsma, D. (eds) Advances in Computer Entertainment. ACE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7624. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34292-9_34

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