The Scrubber is a general controller for friction-induced sound. Allowing the user to engage in familiar gestures and feeling actual friction, the synthesized sound gains an evocative nature for the performer and a meaningful relationship between gesture and sound for the audience. It can control a variety of sound synthesis algorithms of which we demonstrate examples based on granular synthesi...

The Eleventh Malaysia Plan 2016-2020 provides a unique consideration towards further improving the individuals’ economy particularly in raising Income Generation Potential of B40 households while guaranteeing capital keeps on thriving. Numerous initiatives have been taken to promote economic involvement urban families, as well quality life for rural households, including income-generating activ...

ditions under which the various experiments and researches were done, nor whether the terms used mean the same to one researcher as to another. One is therefore left with the frustrating feeling that though this, that, and the other experiment, or result, are quoted, one is never sure whether or not these results are comparable and therefore meaningful. It is a pity that the Hunter and Diack in...

We conducted a qualitative inquiry to describe the meanings of feeling well as experienced by women with Parkinson's disease. Nine women were interviewed and we analysed the interviews using a reflective lifeworld approach based on phenomenological epistemology. We present the analysis as five constituents: the body as unnoticed; being able to move on; feeling joy by being connected; finding pe...