Participants movement tracking animations from my MA experiment #2

The following animated renditions are a byproduct of the video tracking an analysis of my MA thesis second experiment.

Experiment design

The figure above shows a schematic diagram of the experiment design. The videos are of session 1 to 3 of each of the groups (the last session wasn't analyzed). They have …

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My research proposal

Baloon bundles on the dance floor

I've recently submitted my MA research proposal, titled: "Audio-Only Augmented Reality System for Social Interaction". Usually, research proposals aims to present the subject and describe the intents of the current research. This one is a bit more comprehensive, presenting a fully operated system I've developed, preliminary results of the system …

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Find nearby Bluetooth devices with BT-logger

With this new Android app you can get information about nearby Bluetooth devices. The application collect the name, address, RSSI value and time of discovery of nearby Bluetooth devices and write them to file in \BluetoothData directory on the main device storage. The application primary use is to evaluate my …

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Poster presentation for HCI International 2013

Next week I'm going to present my master thesis in HCI International 2013 conference in Las Vegas. The poster is already in printing: 42" x 60" with glossy finish. But for the most of you here is the original pdf. Comments are more than welcome.

Poster for HCI International 2013

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Some pictures from ISTAS'13

Here are some pictures from the conference, which was great by the way.

Presenting the project

Thanks for Alexander Hayes for the picture

My desc in the exhibition hall

Me presenting the system in the exhibition hall

Amber case thumbsup!

Looks like Amber Case likes interactive music :-)

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Slideshow of my thesis presentation

In this slideshow you can taste a little bit of how the system and the experiment looks like. This slideshow originally made for my presentation at ISTAS'13 (and it contains much better animations then what you can see here on the slideshare version :-) ), but I would be happy to present …

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ARpArty, the first ScenePlayer Plus Bluetooth aware scene, is here for you

You are welcome to download and install ARpArty scene for ScenePlayer Plus from here. ARpArty was developed as an implementation of audio-based augmented reality system for interactive music consumption in a silent disco context and is the main scene that I use in my research. In order to install the …

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ScenePlayer Plus

ScenePlayer Plus logo

ScenePlayer Plus is an enhanced version of ScenePlayer by Peter Brinkmann. It uses additional capabilities of the Android device that are not used by RjDj or ScenePlayer apps (Bluetooth is an example) but it is still fully compatible with standard RjDj scenes. ScenePlayer Plus can be downloaded from Google Play …

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Abstract: Audio­-only augmented reality system for social interaction

Tom Gurion

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan

Nori Jacoby

Hebrew University, Jeruslam; Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan

We explore new possibilities for interactive music consumption by proposing an audio-only augmented reality system for social interaction. We designed and built an Android application that measures the relative position of the device from specially designed Bluetooth …

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Publication in the proceedings of HCI International 2013

HCI International 2013 logo

Gurion, Tom, and Nori Jacoby. "Audio-Only Augmented Reality System for Social Interaction." HCI International 2013-Posters’ Extended Abstracts. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 322-326. Here's the paper page at SpringerLink

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