The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)

Garth Paine; Ian Stevenson; Angela Pearce

doi:10.1145/1279740.1279752

The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)

Garth Paine, Ian Stevenson, Angela Pearce

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![CDATA[This paper presents the Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP), an industry partnership project between ThumMotion P/L and The University of Western Sydney (UWS). ThuMP sought to developing mapping strategies for new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), specifically the Thummer™, which provides thirteen simultaneous degrees of freedom. This research presents a new approach to the mapping problem resulting from a primary design research phase and a prototype testing and evaluation phase. In order to establish an underlying design approach for the Thummer™ mapping strategies, a number of interviews were carried out with high-level acoustic instrumental performers, the majority of whom play with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney, Australia. Mapping strategies were developed from analysis of these interviews and then evaluated in trial usability testing.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York, NY, USA
Publisher	HarvestWorks, NIME
Pages	70-77
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1279740.1279752
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - Duration: 30 May 2011 → …

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Conference	International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Period	30/05/11 → …

Keywords

Australia
Centre for Western Sydney
New South Wales
Thummer™
Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
arts
design and construction
electronic musical instruments
mapping
musical instruments
testing
urban living

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