Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems

This book consists of a collection of scientific papers to highlight cutting edge research related to this interdisciplinary field, exploring musical activities, interactive multimodal systems and their interactions with robots to further enhance musical understanding, interpretation, performance, education and enjoyment. It covers some of the most important ongoing interactive multimodal systems and robotics research topics. This book contains 14 carefully selected and reviewed contributions. The chapters are organized in two sections:

• The first section focuses on the development of multimodal systems to provide intuitive and effective human-computer interaction. From this, more advanced methods for the analysis, modeling and understanding of musical performance and novel interfaces for musical expression can be conceived.

• The second section concentrates on the development of automated instruments and anthropomorphic robots designed to study the human motor control from an engineering point of view, to better understand how to facilitate the human-robot interaction from a musical point of view and to propose novel ways of musical expression.