Purrfect Pitch: Exploring Musical Interval Learning through Multisensory Interfaces
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| author | Chin, Sam Fang, Cathy Mengying Singh, Nikhil Ibrahim, Ibrahim Paradiso, Joe Maes, Pattie |
| author_facet | Chin, Sam Fang, Cathy Mengying Singh, Nikhil Ibrahim, Ibrahim Paradiso, Joe Maes, Pattie |
| contents | We introduce Purrfect Pitch, a system consisting of a wearable haptic device and a custom-designed learning interface for musical ear training. We focus on the ability to identify musical intervals (sequences of two musical notes), which is a perceptually ambiguous task that usually requires strenuous rote training. With our system, the user would hear a sequence of two tones while simultaneously receiving two corresponding vibrotactile stimuli on the back. Providing haptic feedback along the back makes the auditory distance between the two tones more salient, and the back-worn design is comfortable and unobtrusive. During training, the user receives multi-sensory feedback from our system and inputs their guessed interval value on our web-based learning interface. They see a green (otherwise red) screen for a correct guess with the correct interval value. Our study with 18 participants shows that our system enables novice learners to identify intervals more accurately and consistently than those who only received audio feedback, even after the haptic feedback is removed. We also share further insights on how to design a multisensory learning system. |
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| spellingShingle | Purrfect Pitch: Exploring Musical Interval Learning through Multisensory Interfaces Chin, Sam Fang, Cathy Mengying Singh, Nikhil Ibrahim, Ibrahim Paradiso, Joe Maes, Pattie Human-Computer Interaction We introduce Purrfect Pitch, a system consisting of a wearable haptic device and a custom-designed learning interface for musical ear training. We focus on the ability to identify musical intervals (sequences of two musical notes), which is a perceptually ambiguous task that usually requires strenuous rote training. With our system, the user would hear a sequence of two tones while simultaneously receiving two corresponding vibrotactile stimuli on the back. Providing haptic feedback along the back makes the auditory distance between the two tones more salient, and the back-worn design is comfortable and unobtrusive. During training, the user receives multi-sensory feedback from our system and inputs their guessed interval value on our web-based learning interface. They see a green (otherwise red) screen for a correct guess with the correct interval value. Our study with 18 participants shows that our system enables novice learners to identify intervals more accurately and consistently than those who only received audio feedback, even after the haptic feedback is removed. We also share further insights on how to design a multisensory learning system. |
| title | Purrfect Pitch: Exploring Musical Interval Learning through Multisensory Interfaces |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09721 |