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Georg Essl, Ph.D.
Research Field:
- Usability
Research Topics:
- Sound Synthesis & Acoustics
- Mobile Interactions
- Digital Signal Processing and Numerical Methods
- Multi-Sensory Technologies
Biography
Georg Essl is a Senior Research Scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and founding member of the Mobile and Physical Interactions group at the chair for Quality and Usability. He works in two main areas: human computer interaction and interface emphasising sensory modalities and interfaces and physically based rendering of natural (and not so natural) sounds. In recent years he has been emphasizing interactions with mobile technologies, mostly to make them richer and more expressive, so that they can be used more performatively (think making music or just noise with them, or to prefigure uses in other forms of entertainment (uh-oh mobile games). He is also working on sound synthesis, with the basis of trying to understand the basic structures of the problem. Most of his recent work has been on wave propagation in the plane but also on non-physical methods like circle maps as the simplest chaotic but stable perturbations of a linear discrete oscillator.
Before coming to Berlin, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at MIT's MediaLab Europe with Sile O'Modhrain on tangible interactions. PebbleBox, a tactile interface for sonic performance which he built with Sile O'Modhrain and Andy Brady, was invited to the Touch Me exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2005. While at Media Lab Europe, he participated in the Enactive European Network of Excellence, which studies the role of action in interaction design. Between 2002-2003 he was Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, where he taught signal processing and synthesis of sound and digital production. He got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2002 working with Perry Cook on physical simulation of musical instruments. He also worked some on spatial audio technologies and beat perception. He received a Diploma Engineer's degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria. Additionally he has worked at AT&T Research Labs on perceptual spatial audio and at HyperWave R&D on a commercial database integrated web server technology. A web management technology he co-developed at HyperWave won the European IT Grand Prize and two BYTE's Best of CeBit awards in 1997.
He is a member of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He serves as technical chair for the International Computer Music Conference in 2004 and 2006. Currently he serve as Research Coordinator of the ICMA.
Address
Quality and Usability Lab
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
D-10587 Berlin, Germany
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Essl, G. "Aspects of the
Topology of Interactions on Loop Dynamics in One and Two Dimensions,"
In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Music
Modeling and Retrieval 2004, Esbjerg, Denmark, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 3310, Springer Verlag, 220-231, 2004.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
- Essl, G., O'Modhrain, S.
"An enactive approach to the design of new tangible musical
instruments" Organised Sound: 11:3.
285-296, 2006. - Essl, G., "Computation of
Wavefronts on a Disk I: Numerical Experiments," Post-conference
publication, "Third Irish Conference on the Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science and Information Technology, Dublin, Ireland, July
22-23, 2004."
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science161, 25-41.
- Essl, G., ""Whispering"
waves and Bate's ridges in numerical experiments" Acoustics Research
Letters Online 6:3, 227-231, 2005.
- Essl, G., "Trapping and
Steering on Lattice Strings: Virtual Slow Waves, Directional and
Non-propagating Excitations," Physical Review E, 69, 066601-1-6,
2004.
- Essl, G., Serafin, S., Cook, P.
R., Smith, J. O., "Theory of Banded Waveguides," Computer Music
Journal, 28:1, 37-50, 2004.
- Essl, G., Serafin, S., Cook, P.
R., Smith, J. O., "Musical Applications of Banded Waveguides,"
Computer Music Journal, 28:1, 51-63, 2004.
- Kapur, A., Essl, G., Davidson,
P., Cook, P. R., "The Electronic Tabla Controller," Journal of
New Music Research 32:4, 351-360, 2003.
- Essl, G. "On Gender in New
Music Interface Technology," Organised Sound, 8:1, 19-30, 2003.
- Essl, G., Cook, P.R.,
"Measurements and efficient simulations of bowed bars," Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, 108:1, 379-388, 2000.
- Li, K., et al, "Early
Experiences and Challenges in Building and Using A Scalable Display Wall
System," IEEE Compter Graphics and Applications, 29-37, July/August,
2000.
INVITED PUBLICATIONS
- Essl, G. "Mathematical
Structure and Sound Synthesis", Proceedings of Sound and Music
Computing 2005, Salerno, Italy,
Nov. 24-26 2005.
- Essl, G. "The Computational
Structure of Waves on Drums for Sound Synthesis", Proceedings of
Forum Acusticum, Budapest, Hungary,
Aug. 29-Sept. 2,
2005.
- Essl, G., "From
Mathematical Concepts to Hands-on Interaction: Physical Modeling and
Interaction Paradigms of Tablas and Singing Bowls" Invited paper, In
the Proceedings of Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music, Annamalai,
India, 6-8, January, 2004.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
- Rohs, M., Schöning, J, Raubal,
M., Essl, G., Krüger, A. "Map Navigation with Mobile Devices: Virtual
versus Physical Movement with and without Visual Context," to appear
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interactions
(ICMI), Nagoya,
2007.
- Essl. G. "Iterated
Fundamental Solution Simulations of Sections of Circular Membranes,"
to appear in Proceedings of the International Symposium for Musical
Acoustics (ISMA), Barcelona,
2007.
- Essl, G., Rohs, M. "ShaMus
- A Sensor-Based Integrated Mobile Phone Instrument" to appear in
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Copenhagen, 2007.
- Rohs, M., Essl, G.
"Sensing-based Interaction for Information Navigation on Handheld
Displays" in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human
Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI),
Singapore, September 9-12, 2007.
- Rohs, M., Essl, G. "CaMus2
- Collaborative Music Performance with Mobile Camera Phones"
Pro-ceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer
Entertainment Technology (ACE), Salzburg, Austria,
June 13-15, 2007.
- Rohs, M., Essl, G. "CaMus2
- Optical Flow and Collaboration in Camera Phone Music Performance"
In roceedings of the Seventh International Conference on New Interfaces
for Musical Expression (NIME), New York, USA, June 6-10, 2007.
- Essl, G. Rohs, M. "The
Design Space of Sensing-Based Interaction for Mobile Music
Performance" Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on
Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 13, 2007
- Rohs, M., Essl. G. "Which
One is Better? - Information Navigation Techniques for Spatially Aware
Handheld Displays" in Proceedings of the International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Banff,
Nov. 2-4, 100-107, 2006.
- Essl, G., Rohs, M. "Mobile
STK for Symbian OS" in Proceedings of the International Computer
Music Conference (ICMC-06), New
Orleans, 2006.
- Essl, G. "Circle Maps as a
Simple Oscillators for Complex Behavior: I. Basics" in Proceed-ings
of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-06), New Orleans, 2006.
- Essl, G. "Circle Maps as a
Simple Oscillators for Complex Behavior: II. Experiments" in
Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
(DaFX), Montreal, Canada, 2006.
- Rohs, M., Essl, G., Roth, M.,
"CaMus: Live Music Performance using Camera Phones and Visual Grid
Tracking" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New
Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Paris, France, 2006.
- Essl, G. Magnusson, C.,
Eriksson, J., O'Modhrain, S. "Towards evaluation of performance,
control and preference in physical and virtual sensorimotor integration
", Proceedings of Enactive 2005, Genova, Italy,
November 17-18, 2005.
- Essl, G. "Towards the
Synthesis of Wavefront Evolution in 2-D", Proceedings of the
International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain,
September 5-9, 2005.
- Essl. G., O'Modhrain, S.,
"Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds," in
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical
Expression, Vancouver, Canada, May 26-28, 70-75, 2005.
- O'Modhrain, S. and Essl, G.,
"PebbleBox and CrumbleBag: Tactile Interfaces for Granular
Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the Conference for New Interfaces
for Musical Expression, Hamamatsu, Japan, 74-79, 2004.
- Essl, G., Cook, P. R.,
"The principle of closed wavetrains, resonance and efficiency: past,
present and future," In the Proceedings of the Stockholm Music
Acoustics Conference (SMAC-03), Stockholm, Sweden, 6-10 September, 385-388,
2003.
- Young, D., Essl, G., "HyperPuja:
A Tibetan Singing Bowl Controller," In the Proceedings of the
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
(NIME-03), Montreal, Canada, 22-24 May, 9-14, 2003.
- Essl, G., "The Displaced
Bow and APhISMs: Abstract Physically Informed Synthesis Methods for
Composition and Interactive Performance," in Florida
Electroacoustic Music Studio Library (Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival 2003), Gainesville, Florida,
3-5 April,
2003.
- Tzanetakis, G., Essl, G., Cook,
P. R., "Human Perception and Computer Extraction of Musical Beat
Strength," in Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Digital Audio
Effects (DAFx-02), Hamburg, Germany, 26-28 September, 257-261, 2002.
- Essl, G., Cook, P. R.,
"Banded Waveguides on Circular Topologies and of Beating Modes:
Tibetan Singing Bowls and Glass Harmonicas," in Proc. of the
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-02), Göteborg, Sweden, 16-21 September, 49-52,
2002.
- Kapur, A., Essl, G., Davidson,
P., Cook, P.R., "The Electronic Tabla Controller," in Proc. 2002
Conference on New Iinstruments for Musical Expression (NIME-2002), Dublin,
Ireland, 24-26
May, 2002.
- Tzanetakis, G., Essl, G., Cook,
P.R., "Audio Analysis using the Discrete Wavelet Transform," In
Proc.
WSES Int. Conf. Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications(AMTA 2001) Skiathos, Greece, 2001. Reprinted in
``Mathematics and Simulation with Biological, Economical and
Musicoacoustical Applications'', WSES Press, 318-323, 2001.
- Tzanetakis, G., Essl, G., Cook,
P.R., "Automatic Musical Genre
Classification of Audio Signals," In Proc. Int.
Symposium onMusic Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001.
- O'Brien, J.F., Cook, P.R.,
Essl, G., "Synthesizing Sound from Physically Based Motion," In
Proc.
SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, August, 529-536, 2001. - Essl, G., Cook, P.R.,
"Banded Waveguides: Towards Physical Modeling of Bar Percussion
Instruments," In Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf. (ICMC), Beijing, 22-28 October, 321-324,
1999.
- Cook, P.R., Essl, G.,
Tzanetakis, G., Trueman D., "N >> 2: Multi-speaker Display
Systems for Virtual Reality and Spatial Audio Projection," In Proc.
Int. Conf. Auditory Display (ICAD), Glasgow,
1-4
November, 1998.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- Essl, G., "Book Review of
'Computational Line Geometry' by H. Pottmann, J. Wallner" SIGACT News
36:3, 13-17, 2005.
- Essl, G., "Physical Wave
Propagation Modeling for Real-Time Synthesis of Natural Sounds,"
Ph.D. thesis, Computer Science Department, Princeton University,
2002.
- O'Brien, J. F., Cook, P. R.,
Essl G., "Synthesizing Sounds from Physically Based Motion." (computer
generated animation), The visual proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA,
August 11-17. In the ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 Animation Theater.
- Essl, G., "Possibilities
for a Hyper-G-WWW-gateway," Master's thesis, Graz University of
Technology, 1996.