NIME04 - Topics

- Design reports on novel controllers and interfaces for musical expression

- Surveys of past work and/or stimulating ideas for future research

- Performance experience reports on live performance and composition using novel controllers

- Controllers for virtuosic performers, novices, education and entertainment

- Perceptual & cognitive issues in the design of musical controllers

- Music and motion and/or music and emotion

- Movement, visual and physical expression with sonic expressivity

- Musical mapping algorithms and intelligent controllers

- Novel controllers for collaborative performance

- Interface protocols (e.g. MIDI) and alternative controllers

- Artistic, cultural, and social impact of new performance interfaces

- Real-time gestural control in musical performance

- Mapping strategies and their influence on digital musical instrument design

- Sensor and actuator technologies for musical applications

- Haptic and force feedback devices for musical control

- Real-time software tools and interactive systems

- Pedagogical applications of new interfaces - Courses and curricula

- Performance rendering system (RENCON)

- Evaluation criteria for evaluating rendered music (RENCON)