A piano performance trainer with tactile guidance
Hokuto Tsutsumi, Hiroaki Nishino, Tsuneo Kagawa · 2017
Educating musical performance skills is a human-centric activity that an expert transfers his skills to others. While the expert tries to convey his skills through language and physical contacts, most ICT-based training systems fully depend on visual information presentation. We propose a method enabling beginners to easily learn piano playing skills. The proposed method presents some important clues to improve the playing skill such as keystroke timing through tactile feedback. It lightens a learner's visual load and allows him to concentrate on playing the piano. We developed a training support system with a mobile tactile feedback function based on the proposed method and evaluated the system.