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Journal Articles

O'Modhrain, M. S., (In Press) "A Framework for the Evaluation of Digital Musical Instruments" To appear in Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, Vol.35 No.1, Spring 2011.

Essl, G. & O'Modhrain, S., (2006) "An Enactive Approach to the Design of New Tangible Musical Instruments." Organised Sound, Volume 11, Issue 03, December 2006, pp285-296

Farella, E., O'Modhrain, S., Benini, L. & Ricco B., (2006) "Gesture Signatures for Ambient Intelligence Applications: a Feasibility Study" in Proceedings of Pervasive 2006, Springer LNCS,  May 2006

O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "Touch and go - designing haptic feedback for a hand-held mobile device" BT Technology Journal, Vol 22 No. 4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, October 2004

Woods, A., O'Modhrain, S. & Newell, F., (2004). "The effect of temporal delay and spatial differences on cross-modal object recognition." Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience,  Vol 4, No.1 PP260-269, Psychonomic Society Publications, June 2004

Gunther, E., O'Modhrain S., "Cutaneous Grooves: Composing for the Sense of Touch" Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 32, pp369-381, Swets & Zietlinger, December 2003


Book Chapters

Essl, G. & O'Modhrain S. (in Press) "Perceptual Integration of Audio and Touch: A Case Study of PebbleBox". To appear in 'Sonic Interaction Design', MIT Press.


Editorships

Paradiso, J & O'Modhrain, S. (Eds) (2003). "Journal of New Music Research, Special Issue: New Interfaces for Musical Performance and Interaction", 32(4), Swets & Zietlinger, December 2003

O'Modhrain, S., Newell, F. & Oakley, I. ,  (Editors) "Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2003", Dublin, Ireland


Conference Papers

2010
Heinz, S. and O'Modhrain, S. (2010) "Designing a Shareable Musical TUI". in Proceedings of NIME 10, Sidney, Australia, June 2010

2009
Gillian, N., Knapp, R. and O'Modhrain, S. (2009) "The SARC EyesWeb Catalog: A Pattern Recognition Toolbox for Musician-Computer Interaction" Proceedings of NIME 09, Pittsburgh, June 2009

Gillian, N. O'Modhrain, S. and Essl, G. (2009) "Scratch-Off: A gesture based mobile music game with tactile feedback" Proceedings of NIME 09, Pittsburgh, June 2009

2008
Bennett, P. & O'Modhrain, S. (2008) "The BeatBearing: a Tangible Rhythm Sequencer", In Proceedings of NordiCHI 2008: 5th Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (electronic proceedings), 2008

Chuchacz, K. Woods, R. O'Modhrain, S. (2008) "Novel Percussive Instrument Design - Converting Mathematical Formulae into Engaging Musical Instruments" International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 24-29, 2008

Chuchacz, K. Woods, R. O'Modhrain, S. (2008) "Towards a Real-Time Implementation of a Physical Modelling Based Percussion Synthesizer" 124th AES Convention, Amsterdam, May 15-18, 2008

2007
Strachan, S. Murray-Smith, R. and O'Modhrain S. (2007) "BodySpace: inferring body pose for natural control of a music player", In Proceedings of CHI 07, San Jose, Calafornia

Bennett, P., Ward, N., O'Modhrain, S. and Rebelo, P. (2007) "DAMPER: a platform for effortful interface development"  in Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression, New York, June 2007

Chuchacz, K., O'Modhrain, S. and Woods, R. (2007) "Physical models and musical controllers: designing a novel electronic percussion instrument" In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression, New York, June 2007

Bennett, P. and O'Modhrain, S. (2007) "Towards Tangible Enactive Interfaces". in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Enactive Interfaces (Enactive '07), Grenoble, 2007

2006
 
O'Modhrain, S., (2006) "Movement and music: designing gestural interfaces for computer-based musical instruments". Keynote address: in Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Multimodal interfaces Banff, CA. November 2006
 
2005
Oakley, I. & O'Modhrain, S., (2005). "Tilt to Scroll: Evaluating a Motion Based Vibrotactile Mobile Interface" in IEEE Proceedings of the World Haptics Conference, Pisa, Italy
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Essl, G. & O'Modhrain, S., (2005). "Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds" in Proceedings of Nime 05, Vancouver, Canada
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Strachan, S., Eslambolchilar, P., Murray-Smith, R., Hughes, S. and O'Modhrain S. (2005) "GpsTunes: controlling navigation via audio feedback" In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on human computer interaction with mobile devices & services (Mobile HCI) PP275-278
 
2004
Hughes, S. Oakley, I & O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "MESH: Supporting Mobile Multi-modal Interfaces" in Proceedings of ACM UIST'04, Santa Fe, NM
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O'Modhrain, S. & Essl, G., (2004). "PebbleBox and CrumbleBag: Tactile Interfaces for Granular Synthesis" in proceedings of NIME'04, Hamamatsu, Japan
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Hughes, S. Cannon, C. O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "Epipe : A Novel Electronic Woodwind Controller" in proceedings of NIME'04, Hamamatsu, Japan
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Oakley, I., Angesleva, J., Hughes, S & O'Modhrain, S., (2004). "Tilt and Feel: Scrolling with Vibrotactile Display" in proceedings of EuroHaptics'04, Munich, Germany
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O'Modhrain, S. & Oakley, I., (2004). "Adding Interactivity: Active Touch in Broadcast Media" in proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, Chicago, Il
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2003

Angesleva, J., Oakley, I., Hughes, S. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003). "Body Mnemonics: Portable device interaction design concept" in proceedings of UIST'03, Vancouver, Canada
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Angesleva, J., O'Modhrain, S., Oakley, I., & Hughes, S., (2003). "Body Mnemonics" in proceedings of Physical Interaction (PI03) - Workshop on Real World User Interfaces, a workshop at the Mobile HCI Conference 2003, Udine, Italy.
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Hughes, S., Oakley, I. Brady, A. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003). "Exploring Dynamic Haptic Cues in Vehicle Teleoperation" in proceedings of EuroHaptics 2003, Dublin, Ireland
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Oakley, I. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003). "Cross-modal perception of motion-based visual-haptic stimuli" presented at the International Multisensory Research Fourm 2003 (IMRF 2003), Hamilton, Canada
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Cannon, C., Hughes, S. & O'Modhrain, S., (2003). "EpipE: Exploration of the Uilleann Pipes as a potential controller for computer-based music" in proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'03), Montreal, Canada
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O'Modhrain, S. & Oakley, I., (2003). "Touch TV: Adding Feeling to Broadcast Media" in proceedings of the European Conference on Interactive Television: from Viewers to Actors?, Brighton, UK
Awarded best paper in conference
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2002
Oakley, I. & O'Modhrain, S., (2002). "Contact IM: Exploring Asynchronous Touch Over Distance" in proceedings of CSCW 2002, New Orleans, LO
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Brady, A., MacDonald, B., Oakley, I., Hughes, S., O'Modhrain, S., (2002). "RELAY: A Futuristic Interface for Remote Driving" in proceedings of EuroHaptics 2002, Edinburgh, UK
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Gunther, E., Davenport, G. & O'Modhrain, S., (2002). "Cutaneous Grooves: Composing for the Sense of Touch" in proceedings of NIME 2002, Dublin, Ireland
 
2002
Chang, A., O'Modhrain, S., Jacob, R., Gunther, E., Ishii, H., (2002). "ComTouch: Design of a Vibrotactile Communication Device" in proceedings of DIS 2002, London, UK
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2000
Chafe, C., O'Modhrain, S., (2000). "The Performer-Instrument Interaction: A Sensory Motor Perspective" in proceedings of the IMCA, Menlo Park.
 
O'Modhrain, S., Chafe, C., (2000). "Incorporating Haptic Feedback into Interfaces for Music Applications" in proceedings of ISORA, World Automation Conference 2000
 
1999
O'Modhrain, S., (1998). "Restricted Access: Exploritory Procedures and Object Properties" in proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems) DSC-Vol. 61.
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1998
Gillespie, R.B., O'Modhrain, S., (1998). "The Virtual Teacher" in proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems) DSC-Vol. 60.
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1997
O'Modhrain, S., Gillespie, R.B., (1997). "The Moose: A Haptic User Interface for Blind Persons" in proceedings of Third WWW6 Conference, Santa Clara, California.
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1996
Chafe, C., O'Modhrain, S., (1996). "Musical Muscle Memory and the Haptic Display of Performance Nuance" in proceedings of ICMC, Menlo Park.
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More information
More information on Sile O'Modhrain's research prior to Media Lab Europe can be found at:
www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~sile/
 
 
 
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