FootNotes: Personal Reflections on the Development of Instrumented Dance Shoes and their Musical Applications (2000)
| Venue: | in Quinz, E., ed., Digital Performance, Anomalie, digital_arts |
| Citations: | 2 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Paradiso00footnotes:personal,
author = {Joseph A. Paradiso},
title = {FootNotes: Personal Reflections on the Development of Instrumented Dance Shoes and their Musical Applications},
booktitle = {in Quinz, E., ed., Digital Performance, Anomalie, digital_arts},
year = {2000},
pages = {34--49}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes experiences in designing and developing an extremely versatile, multimodal sensor interface built entirely into a pair of shoes. I discuss the system design, trace its motivations and goals, then describe its applications in interactive music for dance performance, summarizing lessons learned and future possibilities. ____________________________________ 1) The Inspiration Although the idea of instrumenting shoes for interactive music performance had crossed my mind before, the moment at which I decided to pursue this project can be traced to a demonstration that I attended with my Media Lab colleague Tod Machover in November of 1996. We were visiting some of our research sponsors and colleagues at a Yamaha development laboratory in the Shinjuku section of Tokyo, where they showed us the latest version of their Miburi musical controller [1]. The Miburi is an electronic vest, with bend sensors at various joints to monitor dynamic articulation and a pair of ha...
