DeviceCycle: rapid and reusable prototyping of gestural interfaces, applied to audio browsing by similarity

This paper presents the development of rapid and reusable gestural interface prototypes for navigation by similarity in an audio database and for sound manipulation, using the AudioCycle application. For this purpose, we propose and follow guidelines for rapid prototyping that we apply using the PureData visual programming environment. We have mainly developed three prototypes of manual control: one combining a 3D mouse and a jog wheel, a second featuring a force-feedback 3D mouse, and a third taking advantage of the multitouch trackpad. We discuss benets and shortcomings we experienced while prototyping using this approach.