Équipe Analyse/Synthèse

Introduction: KANSEI - The Technology of Emotion Workshop

Organized by the AIMI - Italian Association of Musical Informatics, the Musical Informatics Laboratory of the University of Genova (DIST) and chaired by Antonio Camurri, president of AIMI.

And what does the word ``KANSEI'' mean?

Quoting A. Camurri's presentation of the workshop:

Kansei is a Japanese word referring to ``emotion'', in the sense of acquired sensibility towards art and music as a whole. ``Kansei information processing'' or ``technology of emotion'' refers to methodology, tools and applications related to emotion modelling, to analysing components of human behavior which we call emotional, with respect to the traditional research in artificial intelligence concerning rational behavior.

The workshop focused mainly on the technology of emotion in music. The main topics covered were:

• expressivity in virtual music instruments,
• adaptative hyper-instruments,
• computational models of artificial emotions,
• relations between music and gesture languages,
• on-stage real-time multimodal environments,
• interactive dance/music systems, and
• modelling of expressive performance, among others.

Comments on selected papers

We will provide here some comments on selected papers on expressivity and gestural capture/control of synthesis and also try to relate these works to previous and concurrent research on these areas.