Dania Murad

• National University of Singapore

Singing songs can be an engaging and effective activity when learning a foreign language. In this paper, we describe a multi-language karaoke application called SLIONS: Singing and Listening to Improve Our Natural Speaking. When developing this application, we followed a user-centered design process which was informed by conducting interviews with...

We introduce MIMES (Motion Initiated Music Ensemble with Sensors); a computational audio system which uses hand gestures for music generation. By using inertial sensors from smart watches, the system is able to trigger instrumental sounds with simple hand gestures. The simplicity of gestures enables novices to learn fundamental aspects of music gen...