Grosshauser, Tobias

ETH Zürich
Tobias Grosshauser
Institut f. Elektronik
ETZ H90
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 632 85 50
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Tobias Grosshauser received his music diploma at the University of Music Nuremberg, including courses in electronics and informatics. He received a PhD scholarship at the CITEC (Cognitive Interaction Technology) Excellence Cluster of the Bielefeld University, where he also finished the graduate school for Intelligent Systems. He also held research positions at IRCAM – Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, at IMSS – Intelligent Multimedia Systems and Services, Reading University, London, at 01Plus – Institute for Art, Design and Technology, Nuremberg and several industrial R&D positions in the field of technology and music. Beside his professional work as violinist and teacher in several schools and orchestras (e.g. Bundesjugendorchester, Germany), he has performed internationally with self-developed augmented instruments. He invented several systems that utilize wearable sensing and computing technologies to support teaching and practicing, as well as help prevent musicians’ health problems. He teaches courses at several universities in music, sensing technology and music production.

In April 2011 he joined the Wearable Computing Group at the Electronics Laboratory.

Research Interests

- wearable and pervasive sensing and computing
- musical instruments performance studies
- embedded systems and wireless sensing
- multi-modal real time feedback
- augmented and new musical instruments

Research Projects

Toward a Science of Music Performance: Interdisciplinary Research on Task-Specific Movement and Learning Parameters in Professional Musicians

In this project several wearable and pervasive sensor technologies for motion, gesture and pressure recognition are developed and evaluated. These can be integrated into every-day performing and exercising scenarios to receive reliable data about fatigue or malpositions. The goal is to develop a reliable sensor setup and a learning and practicing model to increase exercising efficiency and decrease physical health problems. The main application field is string instruments and piano, but further musical instruments are possible.

Publications

• Sensor Setup for Force and Finger Position and Tilt Measurements for Pianists
  in: Sound and Music Conference, SMC 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, (in press).
  Tobias Grosshauser, Horst Hildebrandt, Gerhardt Tröster, Victor Candia
• Sensor Based Measurements of Musicians' Synchronization
  in: New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME 2012, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (in press).
  Tobias Grosshauser, Victor Candia, Horst Hildebrandt, Gerhardt Tröster
• Wearable Sensor Based Real-Time Sonification of Motion and Foot Pressure in Dance Teaching and Training
  in: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2012, (in press).
  Tobias Grosshauser, Bettina Bläsing, Corinna Spieth, T. Hermann
• "ARTIS - an Adaptive and Reactive Technology Integrated Sensor System", Chapter in Book: Art in Motion, Editor Adina Mornell, 2012
• BRIX – An Easy-to-Use Modular Sensor and Actuator Prototyping Toolkit
  in: SenAmi 2012, 4th International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland.
  Sebastian Zehe, Tobias Grosshauser, Thomas Hermann
• New Sensors and Pattern Recognition Techniques for String Instruments
  in: Proceedings NIME 2010, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sydney, 2010
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