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I'm Rasmus Bååth, data scientist, engineering manager, father, husband, tinkerer,
tweaker, coffee brewer, tea steeper, and, occasionally, publisher of stuff I find
interesting down below👇
A short paper I presented at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 30 May – 1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway. This paper was heavily inspired by Hornof, A., & Vessey, K. (2011).
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate how well subjects beat out a rhythm using eye movements and to establish the most accurate method of doing this. Eighteen subjects participated in an experiment were five different methods were evaluated.
After much googling I finally found a copy of Robert MacDougall’s “The Structure of Simple Rhythm forms” from 1903. It was hidden in Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 now freely available from Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16266 . Since it seems the book is now in the public domain I took the liberty to convert “The Structure of Simple Rhythm forms” into pdf-format and post it here so that it might be more easily found in the future.
A short paper I presented at the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition , Thessaloniki, Greece. A great conference, by the way, except for the heat...
Abstract The current study investigates the slower limit of rhythm perception and participants subjective difficulty when tapping to a slow beat. Thirty participants were asked to tap to metronome beats ranging in tempo from 600 ms to 3000 ms between each beat. After each tapping trial the participants rated the difficulty of keeping the beat on a seven point scale ranging from “very easy” to “very difficult”.
I’ve used the really sweet Arduino prototyping platform to construct a high precision, low latency tapping board to be used when measuring finger tapping. The details are found in this technical report.
Abstract This technical report describes the construction of a tapping board to be used in sensorimotor synchronization tasks where the timing of participants’ taps are to be registered. The tapping board is designed to be comfortable to use and to register taps with millisecond accuracy.