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Publications

Johannsen, Gunnar and Teresa Marrin Nakra (in process). “Conductor’s Gestures and Their Mapping to Sound Synthesis.” To appear as a chapter in COST287-ConGAS book “Applications of Gestural Audio Interaction.”

Nakra, T. M. and R. McMahan (2007). Student Composers and Sound Designers in the Context of a Game Design Course. Poster presented at Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education, February 2007.

Wolz, U., C. Ault and T. M. Nakra, “Teaching Game Design through Cross-Disciplinary Content and Individualized Student Deliverables”, 2nd Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development , February 22 - 25, 2007 (extended version appears in The Journal of Game Development)

Wolz, U., C. Ault and T. M. Nakra, “Teaching Game Design through Cross-Disciplinary Content and Individualized Student Deliverables”, The Journal of Game Development, 2, 1 (Feb. 2007).

Ault, C., T. Nakra, K. Pearson, P. Sanders, and U. Wolz, “Collaborative Learning via 3-D Game Development”, (Panel), SIGGRAPH 06,. August 2006, Boston MA.

Ault, C., T. Nakra, K. Pearson, P. Sanders, and U. Wolz, “Video Game Design as a Vehicle for Multidisciplinary Collaboration”, The 2006 NMC Summer Conference June 7-10 Cleveland, Ohio.

Lee, Eric, Teresa Marrin Nakra and Jan Borchers (2004). You’re the Conductor: A Realistic Interactive Conducting System for Children. In NIME 2004 International Conference of New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2004.

Nakra, T. Marrin (2003). Immersion Music: A Progress Report. New Instruments for Musical Expression Conference, McGill University, Montreal.

Nakra, T. Marrin (2002). Musical Performance Applications of Affective Computing. Invited paper, Physiological Computing Workshop, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Milwaukee WI, April 2002.

Nakra, T. Marrin (2001). Synthesizing Expressive Music through the Language of Conducting. Journal of New Music Research, June 2001.

Nakra, T. Marrin (2001). The “Concerto for Conductor”: a new musical form. Invited paper, Acoustical Society of America, December 2001.

Nakra, T. Marrin (2001). Translating Conductors’ Gestures to Sound. Invited paper, Human Supervision and Control in Engineering and Music, September 2001.

Nakra, T. Marrin and Gary Hill. (2000). Quantitative Practice for Students at the Digital Conducting Laboratory. Invited paper, Acoustical Society of America, December 2000.

Nakra, T. Marrin (2000). Inside the Conductor's Jacket: Analysis, Interpretation and Musical Synthesis of Expressive Gesture. (PDF version) Ph.D. Thesis, Media Laboratory. Cambridge, MA, MIT.

Marrin, T., Joseph Paradiso, et al. (1999). Apparatus for Controlling Continuous Behavior Through Hand and Arm Gestures. United States Patent no. 5,875,257, issued February 23, 1999.

Nakra, T. Marrin (1999). Searching for Meaning in Gestural Data: Interpretive Feature Extraction and Signal Processing for Affective and Expressive Content. Trends in Gestural Control of Music. Wanderley, M. and Rovan, B., eds., Paris, IRCAM.

Nakra, T. Marrin (1999). Incorporating gestures into the musical control stream with the Conductor's Jacket. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 106, no. 4, part 2. Awarded Best Student Paper Award in Musical Acoustics at the meeting of the ASA in Columbus, Ohio, November 1-5 1999.

Marrin, T. and R. Picard. (1998). The Conductor's Jacket: a Device for Recording Expressive Musical Gestures. International Computer Music Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, pages 215-219.

Marrin, T. and R. Picard. (1998). Analysis of Affective Musical Expression with the Conductor's Jacket. XII Colloquium for Musical Informatics, Gorizia, Italy, pages 61-64.

Marrin, T. and J. Paradiso. (1997). The Digital Baton: a Versatile Performance Instrument. International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, pages 313-316.

Marrin, T. (1997). Possibilities for the Digital Baton as a General-Purpose Gestural Interface. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 311-312.

Marrin, T. (1996). Toward an Understanding of Musical Gesture: Mapping Expressive Intention with the Digital Baton. M.S. Thesis, Media Laboratory. Cambridge, MA, MIT.