STRINGERS
– An ETC Project website
About
We design and build an extensible research tool embedded with game elements to collect data of motor skills through the process of learning Ukulele.
Our Goals
Train and deploy a machine learning model to
- Detect left hand gesture and identify chord shapes
- Detect right hand up/down patterns
- Collect data including hand / finger position, reaction time, and accuracy
Design and implement a game that
- Includes sample lectures of songs
- Is easy to add new songs to the game with different chords & strumming patterns
- Is designed from a perspective of “Simplicity”, to not become a distraction of the research itself
Deploy a WebApp that
- Can be accessed easily by anyone with a webcam and a Ukulele
- Can send data to a server hosted by our client
Game Design (In progress): A song-driven game that has 3 phases
- Left hand / chords
Teaching all chords used by the song first, then randomly presenting the chords to the player
- Right hand / strumming pattern
Present a fixed (or a limited number of) strumming pattern and ask the player to practice it through a traditional rhythm game format
- Both hands / entire song
Combine the chords and the strumming pattern together

By Entertainment Technology Center