Outputs (26)

Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum (2021)
Journal Article
Mcgowan, J. J., Mcgregor, I., & Leplatre, G. (2021). Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum. ACM transactions on accessible computing, 14(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3445032

The present research evaluates the effectiveness of CymaSense, a real-time 3D visualisation application developed by the authors, as a means of improving the communicative behaviours of autistic participants through the addition of a visual modality... Read More about Evaluation of the Use of Real-time 3D Graphics to Augment Therapeutic Music Sessions for Young People on the Autism Spectrum.

The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Lawson, E., Leplatre, G., Stuart-Smith, J., & Scobbie, J. M. (2019). The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (432-436)

This paper is an ultrasound-based articulatory study of the impact of syllable-position and utterance position on tongue shape and tongue-gesture magnitude in liquid consonants in American, Irish and Scottish English. Mixed effects modelling was used... Read More about The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r.

Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics (2017)
Conference Proceeding
McGowan, J., Leplatre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics. In Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.67

What does music look like? Representation of sound has taken many forms over time, from sinusoidal wave patterns, through to random algorithm-based visualisations based on the amplitude of an audio signal. One aspect of music visualisation that has n... Read More about Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics.

Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Tsiros, A., & Leplâtre, G. (2017). Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI 2017 (128-136). https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136798

This paper presents the results of an investigation into audio-visual (AV) correspondences conducted as part of the development of Morpheme, a painting interface to control a corpus-based concatenative sound synthesis algorithm. Previous research has... Read More about Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis.

CymaSense: a novel audio-visual therapeutic tool for people on the autism spectrum. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). CymaSense: a novel audio-visual therapeutic tool for people on the autism spectrum. In ASSETS '17 Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (62-71). https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132539

Music Therapy has been shown to be an effective intervention for clients with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition that can affect people in a number of ways. This paper presents a study evaluating the use of a mul... Read More about CymaSense: a novel audio-visual therapeutic tool for people on the autism spectrum..

The Effectiveness of Two Audiovisual Mappings to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Tsiros, A., & Leplâtre, G. (2017). The Effectiveness of Two Audiovisual Mappings to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser. In T. Lokki, J. Pätynen, & V. Välimäki (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2017 (320-327)

This paper presents the results of an investigation into audio visual (AV) correspondences conducted as part of the development of Morpheme, a painting interface to control a corpus-based concatenative sound synthesiser. Our goal was to measure the e... Read More about The Effectiveness of Two Audiovisual Mappings to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser.

CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool (2017)
Conference Proceeding
McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool. In DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (270-274). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079159

What does music look like? Representation of music has taken many forms over time, from musical notation [16], through to random algorithm-based visualisations based on the amplitude of an audio signal [19]. One aspect of music visualisation that has... Read More about CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool.

Evaluation of a Sketching Interface to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Tsiros, A., & Leplâtre, G. (2016). Evaluation of a Sketching Interface to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Computer Music Conference 2016 (74-78)

This paper presents the evaluation of Morpheme a sketching interface for the control of sound synthesis. We explain the task that was designed in order to assess the effectiveness of the interface, detect usability issues and gather participants' res... Read More about Evaluation of a Sketching Interface to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser.

An evaluation of a sketching interface for interaction with concatenative sound synthesis. (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Tsiros, A., & LePlâtre, G. (2016, September). An evaluation of a sketching interface for interaction with concatenative sound synthesis. Paper presented at 42nd International Computer Music Conference

This paper presents the evaluation of morpheme a sketching interface for the control of sound synthesis. We explain the task that was designed in order to assess the effectiveness of the interface, detect usability issues and gather participants’ res... Read More about An evaluation of a sketching interface for interaction with concatenative sound synthesis..

Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (2016)
Journal Article
Nakai, S., Beavan, D., Lawson, E., Leplâtre, G., Scobbie, J. M., & Stuart-Smith, J. (2016). Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2016.1165230

In this article, we introduce recently released, publicly available resources, which allow users to watch videos of hidden articulators (e.g. the tongue) during the production of various types of sounds found in the world’s languages. The articulatio... Read More about Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).