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Immertable: a configurable and customizable tangible tabletop for audiovisual and musical control

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This paper presents the development of a new tangible tabletop specially designed for interactive audiovisual and musical control. It explores a new interactive space based on 3D active tangible interaction and user's gestures that allows the user to extend the control of the musical events beyond the tabletop surface. It includes a vertical see-through screen for projecting the feedback of the user's movements and the visualization of the musical show. The tabletop interface and the ways for interaction are totally configurable and customizable. Three different artistic and musical performances are presented to show the ability of Immertable to be adapted for different ways of interaction, music creation and visual interface requirement1.

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    Interacción '17: Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
    September 2017
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