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The Haptic Drum Kit employs four computer-controlled vibrotactile devices, one attached to each wrist and ankle. In the applications discussed here, haptic pulses are used to guide the playing, on a drum kit, of rhythmic patterns that require multi-limb co-ordination. The immediate aim is to foster rhythm skills and multi-limb coordination. A broader aim is to systematically develop skills in recognizing, identifying, memorizing, retaining, analyzing, reproducing, and composing polyphonic rhythms. Three different theories cast interesting light on this approach: the work of the music educator Dalcroze (1865-1950; the entrainment theory of human rhythm perception and production; and sensory motor contingency theory. The paper below reports on a design study and identifies and discusses a variety of emerging design issues. The study demonstrates that beginning drummers are able to learn intricate drum patterns from haptic stimuli alone usisng this new tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland,S., Bouwer,A, Dalgleish,M. and Hurtig, T. (2010) Feeling the Beat where it counts: Fostering Multi-limb Rhythm Skills with the Haptic Drum Kit. In Proceedings of TEI 2010 Boston Cambridge Mass. Oro ID 18900.\u00a0HapticDrumKitTEI2010.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Haptic Drum Kit employs four computer-controlled vibrotactile devices, one attached to each wrist and ankle. In the applications discussed here, haptic pulses are used to guide the playing, on a drum kit, of rhythmic patterns that require multi-limb co-ordination. The immediate aim is to foster rhythm skills and multi-limb coordination. A broader aim is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_unity_review_frequency":"","_unity_review_next_due":0,"_unity_review_reset_requested":false,"_unity_news_pull_enabled":false,"_unity_news_feed_url":"","_unity_news_items_per_page":10,"_unity_pubs_pull_enabled":false,"_unity_pubs_orocus":"","_unity_pubs_project_group":"","_unity_pubs_items_per_page":10,"_unity_research_event_page_slug":"","_unity_team_show_photos":true,"_unity_team_show_blurbs":true,"_unity_team_group_members":false,"_unity_team_profiles_per_row":3,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.stem.open.ac.uk\/the-haptic-drum-kit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}