ViolinBrush: Human-Expressive Mappings for Real-Time Robotic Painting

Savery, R; Savery, A; Baird, J

ViolinBrush: Human-Expressive Mappings for Real-Time Robotic Painting

Savery, R Savery, A

Baird, J

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Publisher:: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Hai 2025 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, 2026, pp. 467-469
Issue Date:: 2026-01-02

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dc.contributor.author	Savery, R
dc.contributor.author	Savery, A https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8394-6316
dc.contributor.author	Baird, J
dc.date.accessioned	2026-10-09T07:09:24Z
dc.date.available	2026-10-09T07:09:24Z
dc.date.issued	2026-01-02
dc.identifier.citation	Hai 2025 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, 2026, pp. 467-469
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/197005
dc.description.abstract	We present ViolinBrush, a realĝ€'time interactive system that transfers the nuanced bowing gestures of a live violinist to the strokes of a robotic painting arm. Unlike previous creativeĝ€'robotics projects that treat the machine as an autonomous or preĝ€'programmed agent, ViolinBrush is conceived as an experiment into whether embodied musical expressiveness can imbue a robot with a perceived humanness. Continuous descriptors of bow pitch and roll are mapped, respectively, to stroke stipple density and jitter, allowing micro-fluctuations in performance energy to visibly texture each mark.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
dc.relation.ispartof	Hai 2025 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1145/3765766.3765835
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	ViolinBrush: Human-Expressive Mappings for Real-Time Robotic Painting
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/UTS Groups
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/UTS Groups/Animal Logic Academy
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dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated	2026-10-09T07:09:23Z
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Abstract:

We present ViolinBrush, a realĝ€'time interactive system that transfers the nuanced bowing gestures of a live violinist to the strokes of a robotic painting arm. Unlike previous creativeĝ€'robotics projects that treat the machine as an autonomous or preĝ€'programmed agent, ViolinBrush is conceived as an experiment into whether embodied musical expressiveness can imbue a robot with a perceived humanness. Continuous descriptors of bow pitch and roll are mapped, respectively, to stroke stipple density and jitter, allowing micro-fluctuations in performance energy to visibly texture each mark.

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