ReMirrorFugue: Examining the Emotional Experience of Presence and (Illusory) Communications Across Time

<https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713328>

＂This paper examines how strategies for simulating social presence across distance can evoke a sense of presence and facilitate illusory interactions across time. We conducted a mixed-methods study with 28 participants, exploring their emotional experience of interacting with decade-old recorded piano performances on MirrorFugue—a player piano enhanced with life-sized projections of the pianist’s hands and body, creating the illusion of a virtual reflection playing the instrument. Data were collected via wearable sensors, questionnaires, and interviews.

Results showed that participants felt a strong presence of past pianists, with some experiencing the illusion of two-way communication and an overall increase in connection. The emotional experience was significantly influenced by the participant’s relationship with the recorded pianist and the pianist’s vital status. These findings suggest that telepresence technologies can foster connections with the past, offering spaces for memory recall, self-reflection, and a sense of “time travel.”＂

#openaccess #emotion #timetravel #music #pianist #piano #telepresence

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Figure 1: Schematic of our main study’s procedure featuring a participant interacting with her childhood self on MirrorFugue, recorded 12 years ago.

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Figure 2: The MirrorFugue recording(left) and playback (right) setups

🧵1/x Feeling a little #nostalgic this year, so I decided to revisit some of the #music I produced in the past 20+ years.

First up is Trio Metrik – a spontaneous and adventurous jazz improvisation with #piano, #drums and #cello, based in #Berlin. We captured some stunning landscapes using our instruments, and the interaction get's complex and groovy as well.

My favourite track: Vogelperspektive.

Released 12.02.2010 (16 years ago!). Listen here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Trio_Metrik/01

#fedimusic #musician

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Product image of the Trio Metrik CD in a cardboard packaging. The black and white print shows the three musicians with their instruments, interwoven with each other.