Music and HCI Network (CHIME)

音乐是人类生活的中心部分，也是英国经济的主要贡献者。计算机正在改变音乐的创作、表演、分发、存储、导航、改编、挪用、消费和操纵方式。这些转变为音乐与人机交互的研究创造了新的机遇和挑战，研究内容包括：互动音乐系统；数字和虚拟乐器；对现有音乐活动进行创新；以及使新的音乐活动成为可能的工具。这些新发展将影响表演者、作曲家、观众、教育工作者、学习者、音乐学家、应用程序开发者、辅助技术专家、企业和慈善机构。英国的研究人员在这一领域进行了国际上优秀的研究，但许多人是孤立的，分散在全国各地，并且被安置在不同的学科中，导致错过了与潜在的学术和工业合作伙伴进行跨学科合作的机会。CHIME网络（计算机人机交互和音乐网络）就是为了解决和克服这个问题而设计的。CHIME网络将连接学者、研究人员、中小企业、慈善机构和工业合作伙伴，以汇集和扩展思想，推动新的研究，并围绕该领域的新兴问题开发合作项目。音乐和人机交互的研究不仅对音乐活动和相关行业有用，而且对找到使计算机易于控制和理解的方法也很有用。音乐和人机交互在人机交互方面激发了许多创新，例如手势界面、数据手套和触摸交互。音乐和人机交互的研究在整个身体在交互中起关键作用的领域也很有用。这是因为许多音乐活动都需要实时协调整个身体，经常与其他人合作，同时处理重要的感知和认知需求。最初为音乐家开发的可穿戴动作捕捉技术现在被用于临床应用。例如，一种帮助鼓手协调手臂和腿部运动的系统已经在中风后的身体康复管理中得到了应用。由于这种公认的音乐和人机交互之间的协同作用，一个将音乐和人机交互研究人员以及来自行业和慈善机构的相关方聚集在一起的网络将有能力创造新的理论、产品、方法和服务，不仅为音乐家、音乐行业和观众，而且还可能有助于我们如何与计算机进行一般的互动。该网络每年将举行两次正式会议，以支持新的合作企业。将邀请重要的国际主题演讲者提供来自海外研究实验室的见解，并参与网络活动。将为会员和新研究人员提供以下领域的培训：交互式机器学习，音频的表达触觉，可访问的乐器，音乐交互中的设计和评估方法，手势传感，直接大脑交互，实时生物传感，现场编码和活跃性，数字艺术，文化3.0和多样性。除了直接的培训研讨会外，合适的主题将在公开的小组讨论、讲座和在线研讨会中进行探讨，并进行直播和存档。

Music is a central part of human life, and a major contributor to the UK economy.Computing is changing how music is created, performed, distributed, stored, navigated, adapted, appropriated, consumed and manipulated. These transformations are creating new opportunities and challenges for research in Music and Human Computer Interaction, research that covers: interactive music systems; digital and virtual musical instruments; innovative approaches to existing musical activities; and tools that make new kinds of musical activity possible. These new developments will affect performers, composers, audiences, educators, learners, musicologists, app builders, assistive technologists, businesses and charities.UK researchers carry out internationally excellent research in this area, but many are isolated, scattered across the country, and housed in diverse disciplines, leading to missed opportunities to collaborate across disciplines with potential academic and industrial partners. The CHIME network (Computer Human Interaction and Music nEtwork) is designed to address and overcome this problem.The CHIME network will connect academics, researchers, SMEs, charities and industrial partners in order to pool and expand ideas, drive new research, and develop collaborative projects around emerging issues in the field.Research in music and human computer interaction is useful not only to musical activities and relevant industries, but also in finding ways to make computers easy to control and understand. Music and human computer interaction has inspired numerous innovations in human computer interaction, for example in gestural interfaces, data gloves and touch interaction. Research in music and human computer interaction is also useful in areas where one's whole body plays a key role in the interaction. This is because many musical activities involve coordinating the whole body, in real-time, often collaborating with other people, while dealing with significant perceptual and cognitive demands. Techniques for wearable motion capture originally developed for musicians are now being used in clinical applications. For example, a system developed to help drummers co-ordinate arm and leg movement has found application in managing physical rehabilitation after stroke.Because of this recognised synergy between music and HCI, a network that brings together researchers in music and HCI along with interested parties from industry and charities will have the capacity to create new theories, products, approaches and services not only for musicians, the music industry and audiences, but may also contribute to how we interact with computers generally.The network will meet formally twice a year to support new collaborative ventures. Key international keynote speakers will be invited to provide insights from overseas research labs, and to engage with network activities. Training will be provided for members and new researchers in domains such as: interactive machine learning, expressive haptics complementing audio, accessible instruments, methodologies for design and evaluation in music interaction, gesture sensing, direct brain interaction, real-time biosensing, live coding and liveness, digital arts, culture 3.0 and diversity. In addition to direct training workshops, suitable topics will be explored in publicly accessible panel discussions, talks and online workshops, to be live streamed and archived.