TempoWatch: A Wearable Music Control Interface for Dance Instructors

Josef Roth; Christopher Getschmann; Jan Ehlers; Florian Echtler

doi:10.1145/3430524.3442461

TempoWatch: A Wearable Music Control Interface for Dance Instructors

Josef Roth^*, Christopher Getschmann, Jan Ehlers, Florian Echtler

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Abstract

We present TempoWatch, a wearable smartwatch-based interface designed to allow dance instructors to control music playback and tempo directly on their wrist via touch gestures using a circular watch display. Dance instructors have unique requirements with respect to music playback in their classes, in particular the ability to stay in position while controlling the playback, and to change speed via time-stretching. However, common stereo decks and mobile music player apps do not support these requirements well. We present the design and architecture of our system, and a qualitative evaluation performed with 9 semi-professional instructors in their own dance classes. Dance instructors were involved in this project from the very beginning to match the system and interface design to its prospective use cases. Results show that instructors are able to use TempoWatch productively after only a short learning phase.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Number of pages	6
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2021
Pages	1-6
Article number	55
ISBN (Print)	9781450382137
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450382137
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442461
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	TEI 2021: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction - Salzburg, Austria Duration: 1 Feb 2021 → 1 Feb 2021

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Conference	TEI 2021: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Salzburg
Period	01/02/2021 → 01/02/2021

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dance
instruction
music
smartwatch
teaching
wearable

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Roth, J, Getschmann, C, Ehlers, J & Echtler, F 2021, TempoWatch: A Wearable Music Control Interface for Dance Instructors. in TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction., 55, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-6, TEI 2021: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Salzburg, Austria, 01/02/2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442461

TempoWatch: A Wearable Music Control Interface for Dance Instructors. / Roth, Josef; Getschmann, Christopher; Ehlers, Jan et al.
TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 1-6 55.

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