Immersive Visual Analysis of Cello Bow Movements

TL;DR

This paper introduces a 3D immersive visualization system for analyzing cello bow movements, combining motion tracking and audio data to enhance understanding of playing techniques.

Contribution

It presents a novel immersive visualization environment specifically designed for analyzing cello bow movements, integrating motion and audio data in a 3D space.

Findings

Prototype developed for cello bow movement analysis

Uses third dimension to encode time in 3D space

Plans for user study with cellists

Abstract

We propose a 3D immersive visualization environment for analyzing the right hand movements of a cello player. To achieve this, we track the position and orientation of the cello bow and record audio. As movements mostly occur in a shallow volume and the motion is therefore mostly two-dimensional, we use the third dimension to encode time. Our concept further explores various mappings from motion and audio data to spatial and other visual attributes. We work in close cooperation with a cellist and plan to evaluate our prototype through a user study with a group of cellists in the near future.