Perception of Vibrotactile Cues in Musical Performance
Federico Fontana,Stefano Papetti,Hanna Järveläinen,Federico Avanzini,Bruno L. Giordano +4 more
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TLDR
In this article, a review of the previous literature on vibrotactile perception in musical performance is presented, and the authors suggest that studies on active touch psychophysics are needed to inform the design of haptic musical interfaces and better understand the relevance of hapt cues in musical performances.Abstract:
We suggest that studies on active touch psychophysics are needed to inform the design of haptic musical interfaces and better understand the relevance of haptic cues in musical performance. Following a review of the previous literature on vibrotactile perception in musical performance, two recent experiments are reported. The first experiment investigated how active finger-pressing forces affect vibration perception, finding significant effects of vibration type and force level on perceptual thresholds. Moreover, the measured thresholds were considerably lower than those reported in the literature, possibly due to the concurrent effect of large (unconstrained) finger contact areas, active pressing forces, and long-duration stimuli. The second experiment assessed the validity of these findings in a real musical context by studying the detection of vibrotactile cues at the keyboard of a grand and an upright piano. Sensitivity to key vibrations in fact not only was highest at the lower octaves and gradually decreased toward higher pitches; it was also significant for stimuli having spectral peaks of acceleration similar to those of the first experiment, i.e., below the standard sensitivity thresholds measured for sinusoidal vibrations under passive touch conditions.read more
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