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CSIRO air guitar in action.
CSIRO air guitar in action.
Photo by Dr R Helmer, CSIRO.

Wearable guitar instrument shirt

This video interviews Dr Richard Helmer about CSIRO's wearable instrument shirt guitar and then shows him demonstrating it. (1:00)

CSIRO Research Engineer, Dr Richard Helmer, is interviewed about the wearable guitar which works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation.

It then shows him demonstrating it.

“Developing the air guitar was a technical challenge for precision textile-based sensing.”
Dr Richard Helmer
Theme Leader: Advancing Human Performance

The intent of this video clip is to explain:

  • the instrument
  • its postural flexibility
  • the ability to repeatedly play performance parts with the CSIRO wearable instrument shirt guitar.

The wearable instrument shirt is a conventional black long sleeve T-shirt and the textile motion sensors used by the instrument for monitoring elbow movements and computer interface are not directly discernable in the garment.

See another performance using this instrument in Wearable instrument shirt: guitar (Video).

 

Contact Information

Primary Contact

Ms Heather Forward (MBIT)
Communications Officer, Geelong
Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: 61 3 5246 4085 
Fax: 61 3 5246 4811 

Location

CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering - Geelong
Cnr Henry St and Colac Rd
Belmont, Geelong VIC 3216
Australia
Contact: Reception, Geelong
Phone:61 3 5246 4000 
Fax:61 3 5246 4057 

Contact

Dr Richard Helmer (BEng(Hons) BSc PhD)
Project leader
Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: 61 3 5246 4129 
Alt Phone: 61 3 9545 2283 
Fax: 61 3 5246 4057