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currently at gold
research
working with nick bryan-kinns and pat healey on the engaging collaborations project (thanks to epsrc)
this project is about understanding mutual engagement, and finding interface designs that have an effect on engagement
we have now worked on three group music sequencers, the idea is not to replace face-to-face music making, but to try and find a new medium for music making (in the same way that sms and email have changed text communication).
the first was metatone, and innovated scribbles and post-its on the interface, to afford pointing and talking about screen items in context, then daisyphone, which introduced the circular interface and experimental features such as the decay of notes and identification of notes, and now we have daisyfield, which maps musical phrases to daisies, the uptake of ideas to bunching of daisies, and the spatial arrangement of daisies as group dynamics. the experimental features are mouse position affecting volume, and the visibility of others' mouse position.
