Music and Human-Computer Interaction

From the reviews: "The chapters begin with an abstract and end with a concluding wrap-up and a list of references. A comprehensive index for the entire book is very helpful to readers. A broad audience of researchers, musicians, and designers will find worthwhile and stimulating ideas in this book." (Brad Reid, Computing Reviews, March, 2014)

• Music Interaction: Understanding Music and Human-Computer Interaction.- Should Music Interaction Be Easy?.- Amateur Musicians, Long-term Engagement, and HCI.- Affective Musical Interaction: Influencing Users’ Behaviour and Experiences with Music.- Chasing a Feeling: Experience in Computer Support Jamming.- The Haptic Bracelets: Learning Multi-limb Rhythm Skills from Haptic Stimuli whilst Reading.- Piano Technique as a Case Study in Expressive Gestural Interaction.- Live Music-making: A Rich Open Task Requires a Rich Open Interface.- A New Interaction Strategy for Musical Timbre Design.- Pulsed Melodic Processing – The Use of Melodies in Affective Computations for Increased Processing Transparency.- Computer Musicking: HCI, CSCW, and Collaborative Digital Musical Interaction.- Song Walker Harmony Space: Embodied Interaction Design for Complex Musical Skills.- Evolutionary and Generative Music Informs Music HCI – and vice versa.- Video Analysis for Evaluating Music Interaction: Musical Tabletops.- Towards a Participatory Approach for Interaction Design based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Case Study from Music Interaction.- Appropriate and Complementary Rhythmic Improvisation in an Interactive Music System.- Index.