Two VoodooIO-related papers were presented at the first international conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI '07), held at Baton Rouge, Louisiana:
A Malleable Control Structure for Softwired User Interfaces ( PDF)
VoodooFlash: Authoring Across Physical and Digital Form ( PDF )
More pictures of the event on Flickr.
Dave Molyneaux's image gallery of the VoodooIO exhibit at SIGGRAPH '06 Emerging Technologies Exhibition. LINK.
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A demonstration video showing how VoodooIO is used to create an adaptable cockpit for playing MechWarrior 4.
Voodoo Cows is an instrument for physically fabricating sonic environments ad hoc. The concept was originally inspired by the collective sound produced by the cowbells from a herd of Swiss cows. The bell on each cow has a distinct tone and unique ringing pattern as each animal moves around and shakes its head at its own pace, creating interesting syncopated rhythms. Each ‘performance’ is dynamic, and unique to an audience that might encounter any particular ad hoc arrangement of cows in a field.
Voodoo Cows simulates this behaviour by providing a physical interface to compose soundcapes out of individually manipulable rhythmic cowbells. The bells are represented by Dial 'Pins that can be brought in and out of the area of a playing field (a location-aware, VoodooIO substrate). The actual sound of the bells is synthesized on a laptop, amplified and rendered through stereo speakers.
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Submission to SIGGRAPH '06, Emerging Technologies track.
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A rearrangeable tangible interface for musical composition and performance. Poster and interactive demo.
Nicolas Villar, Adam Lindsay and Hans Gellersen
New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME '05), Vancouver, Canada
Interactive poster and demonstration.
N. Villar, K. Van Laerhoven, H.-W. Gellersen.
EUSAI 2004, Eindhoven, Netherlands
K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar and H.-W. Gellersen
PIO'03 @ MobileHCI 2003, Udine, Italy
K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar, A. Schmidt, H.-W. Gellersen, M. Håkansson, and L. E. Holmquist
IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2003
K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar, M. Håkansson, and H.-W. Gellersen
5th IEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances, Liverpool, UK. 2002