Presentation 2020-03-04
An On-line Visual Feedback System for Assisting Piano Practice
Satoshi Kayada, Yutaka Sakaguchi,
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Abstract(in English) “Awareness” plays an essential role in doing practice for acquiring motor skills, such as sports and music instrument performance. Aiming to assist the practice of piano playing by inducing “helpful awareness”, the authors implemented a real-time visual feedback system of the motion of piano actions and examined its effect experimentally. We asked three participants to do practice of several technical subjects on timbre control using the proposed system. All participants reported that they acquired some new findings (i.e., awareness) with the proposed system, which could not been noticed without the system. Especially, the system led some participants to listen to the sound more carefully and attentively, suggesting that the proposed system may be effective for cultivating the listening ability of the piano students.
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Keyword(in English) Piano Performance / On-line Visual Feedback / Assistance of Practice / Awareness
Paper # NC2019-82
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2020/3/4(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) University of Electro Communications
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Neuro Computing, Medical Engineering, etc.
Chair Hayaru Shouno(UEC) / Taishin Nomura(Osaka Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuyuki Samejima(Tamagawa Univ) / Takashi Watanabe(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Kazuyuki Samejima(NAIST) / Takashi Watanabe(NTT)
Assistant Takashi Shinozaki(NICT) / Ken Takiyama(TUAT) / Yasuyuki Suzuki(Osaka Univ.) / Akihiro Karashima(Tohoku Inst. of Tech.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) An On-line Visual Feedback System for Assisting Piano Practice
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Piano Performance
Keyword(2) On-line Visual Feedback
Keyword(3) Assistance of Practice
Keyword(4) Awareness
1st Author's Name Satoshi Kayada
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
2nd Author's Name Yutaka Sakaguchi
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
Date 2020-03-04
Paper # NC2019-82
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) NC-453
Page pp.pp.39-44(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (NC)