Improvisation in using everyday tools

Constraint - Directed Improvisation for Everyday Activities

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Improvisation Support using Thermoscore-Display

In this paper, we propose an improvisation support system that makes advice after a player hits the key via temperature sensation. Differ from conventional improvisation support system, it does not change the essential function of the instrument itself. To examine the effectiveness of the system, we carried out an experiment and compared it with the typical improvisation support system and the ...

Supporting Reflection in Software Development with Everyday Working Tools

Abstract Through their day-to-day usage collaboration tools collect data on the work process. These data can be used to aid participants’ retrospective reflection on the process. The paper shows how this can be done in software development project work. Through a case study we demonstrate how retrospective reflection was conducted by use of an industry approach to project retrospectives combine...

Inter-Play: Understanding Group Music Improvisation as a Form of Everyday Interaction

Using Factor Oracles for Machine Improvisation

We describe variable markov models we have used for statistical learning of musical sequences, then we present the factor oracle, a data structure proposed by Crochemore & al for string matching. We show the relation between this structure and the previous models and indicate how it can be adapted for learning musical sequences and generating improvisations in a real-time context.