An Accessible Digital Musical Instrument for playing melodies through gaze, using context-switching and smooth pursuit.

Please refer to the Kiroll page on Nicola Davanzo's personal website for more informations, instrument description and usage guide.

Requirements

• A computer equipped with a Windows operating system
• Any sensor capable of moving the mouse cursor, which will be used for chord selection and to navigate the interface
  • (Suggested) an eye tracker, with some proper software
  • (Suggested) an eye tracker, with a NITH wrapper software
• Any of these NITH sensors, which will control note onset and offset, intensity and dynamics
  • NITHbreathSensor

If you don't possess this NITH sensors you will still be able to try Kiroll using your mouse, and play using the spacebar.

Installation and running

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page
2. Unzip the archive
3. Run Kiroll.exe

Contribution

Kiroll is licensed through a GNU GPL-v3 Free Open-Source software license. Feel free to fork this repository and contribute!

Dependencies

• .NET 8, which SDK and development tools can be automatically downloaded within the Visual Studio installer
• Netychords depends on NITHlibrary and NITHdmis. Please clone both of them, and place them in an adjacent folder to your Netychords folder. Visual Studio should automatically locate them after opening Kiroll.sln

Issues

If you have any issue and/or proposal, please open a GitHub issue on the Issues page of this repository, or write an e-mail to: nicola(dot)davanzo(at)unimi(dot)it

Acknowledgements

Thanks my thesis student Luca Valente for developing the instrument <3