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A rhythm-aware serious game for social interaction

Journal

MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages 4749-4771

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-13372-3

Keywords

Serious games; Sound and music computing; Music generation; Tempo detection; Human-computer interaction

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Making music with others is a social activity that can enhance the well-being of individuals. Researchers have developed a serious game to enable non-musicians to interact and create rhythms collaboratively. The game analyzes real-time rhythms and provides synchronized musical feedback, enhancing the musical interaction and therapeutic effects.
Making music with others is both an artistic act and a social activity. Music therapists can leverage the social aspects of music to increase the well-being of their patients by interacting with them musically, improvising rhythms and melodies together on shared musical instruments. This activity requires highly trained professionals and is therefore expensive for the clients. We propose a serious game that can help people without musical training interact by collaboratively creating a rhythm using MIDI drum pads. The gaming system analyzes the rhythm in real-time and adds musical feedback that is synchronized to what the users play, enhancing the aesthetical experience that is crucial to the musical interaction and its therapeutic effects. We assessed our system through quantitative metrics showing its capability of following a user-established tempo. Test players also completed a questionnaire, which showed they found the experience pleasant and engaging, and that the musical augmentation was helpful to their interaction.

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