Project #08.3: MultiMediaCycle: Consolidating the HyForge Framework towards Improved Scalability and Usability

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Abstract

The aim of this project is to explore new user inter­faces and data orga­ni­za­tion for data­base nav­i­ga­tion within the Medi­a­Cy­cle soft­ware. Both issues are deeply inter­con­nected since the data­base dis­play depends on the inter­nal data orga­ni­za­tion and vice-versa, the data orga­ni­za­tion has to be cho­sen to allow use­ful and mean­ing­ful dis­plays as well as intu­itive nav­i­ga­tion. Because each data type or appli­ca­tion might require a spe­cific visu­al­iza­tion, we expanded the plu­gin archi­tec­ture of Medi­a­Cy­cle to facil­i­tate the test­ing of var­i­ous pro­to­types. Two types of prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions have been con­sid­ered: query by sim­i­lar­ity and data­base explo­ration. We present here a new brows­ing inter­face that com­bines both types, as well as some tests of exter­nal con­trollers (3D mouse, track­pad,…) that can poten­tially enhance the nav­i­ga­tion process.

Results

Doc­u­ments

  • [2010,inproceedings] bib­tex Go to document
    Fris­son Chris­t­ian, Dupont Stéphane, Siebert Xavier, Tardieu Damien, Dutoit Thierry, Macq Benoit, « Device­Cy­cle: rapid and reusable pro­to­typ­ing of ges­tural inter­faces, applied to audio brows­ing by sim­i­lar­ity », in « Pro­ceed­ings of the New Inter­faces for Musi­cal Expres­sion++ (NIME++) », Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, 2010.
    @INPROCEEDINGS{DeviceCycleNIME2010,
      author = {Christian Frisson and St\'{e}phane Dupont and Xavier Siebert and Damien Tardieu and Thierry Dutoit and Benoit Macq},
      title = {Device{C}ycle: rapid and reusable prototyping of gestural interfaces, applied to audio browsing by similarity},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression++ (NIME++)},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Sydney, Australia},
      month = {June 15-18},
      url = {http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/nime/PROCEEDINGS/papers/Demo%20Q1-Q15/P473_Frisson.pdf}
    }
  • [2009,inproceedings] bib­tex Go to document
    Siebert Xavier, Dupont Stéphane, Fris­son Chris­t­ian, Tardieu Damien, « Mul­ti­Me­di­a­Cy­cle: Con­sol­i­dat­ing the HyForge Frame­work towards Improved Scal­a­bil­ity and Usabil­ity », in « QPSR of the nume­di­art research pro­gram », 2009, pp. 113–117.
    @INPROCEEDINGS{numediart_2009_s08_p3_report,
      author = {Xavier Siebert and St\'{e}phane Dupont and Christian Frisson and Damien Tardieu},
      title = {MultiMediaCycle: Consolidating the HyForge Framework towards Improved Scalability and Usability},
      booktitle = {{QPSR} of the numediart research program},
      year = {2009},
      editor = {Thierry Dutoit and Beno\^{i}t Macq},
      volume = {2},
      number = {2},
      pages = {113-117},
      month = {12},
      organization = {numediart Research Program on Digital Art Technologies},
      url = {http://www.numediart.org/docs/numediart_2009_s08_p3_report.pdf}
    }

Soft­ware

Device­Cy­cle is a tool­box for Pure­Data aim­ing at facil­i­tat­ing the rapid pro­to­typ­ing of ges­tural inter­faces using off-the-shelf devices (jog wheels, 3D mice, force-feedback 3D mice, mul­ti­touch track­pads…). While it is designed to be cross-platform, it has so far been tested on OSX Leop­ard only. Please send us your feed­back!

  Device­Cy­cle v0.1 (2.3 MiB, 310 hits)