A Tactile Assistance for Improving Fingering Skill in Piano Performance

摘要

Playing a piano requires various techniques and properly acquiring fingering skills without expert's assistance is particularly difficult. While the expert tries to convey his skills through language and physical contacts to trainees, most ICT-based training systems visually present exercise information. We propose a method enabling trainees to easily improve their fingering skills via a tactile feedback technique. It indicates which finger to use by directly stimulating a target finger in parallel with presenting visual information. We made a tactile display for finely indicating fingering information and evaluated a prototype system to verify the effectiveness of the method.