Research

Imagining what comes next.

Accessive Tools collaborates with leading academic and industry researchers to advance the state of the art in a broad range of areas, including user interaction design, artificial intelligence, audio analysis, signal processing and graphics computing. By actively taking part in the scientific communities, we make computers more capable and useful, push forward the boundaries of technology and enable far-reaching breakthroughs.

Workshops and Sessions at Scientific Conferences

Accessive Tools regularly conducts workshops and hands-on sessions with a broad spectrum of participants from the scientific communities and the audio industries at a variety of conferences worldwide.

• Rethinking the Digital Audio Workstation
  129th AES Convention, San Francisco 2010
• Web Radio Browsing
  Music HackDay London 2010
• Interacting with Semantic Audio—Bridging the Gap between Humans and Algorithms, pt. II
  128th AES Convention, London 2010
• Interacting with Semantic Audio—Bridging the Gap between Humans and Algorithms, pt. I
  127th AES Convention, New York 2009
• Sound Design and Processing
  126th AES Convention, München 2009

Scientific Publications

Due to license restrictions, not all works are available for downloading. In many cases, however, we are allowed to mail a copy on request.

• S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, Audio Re-Synthesis based on Waveform Lookup Tables, AES Paper 8286 (129th AES Convention 2010)
• K. Gohlke, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach., TapShot: Screenshot Snippets as GUI Shortcuts, SIGGRAPH 2010 Poster
• K. Gohlke, M. Hlatky, D. Black, S. Heise, J. Loviscach, Track Displays in DAW Software: Beyond Waveform Views, AES Paper 8145 (128th AES Convention, 2010)
• S. Heise, J. Loviscach, A Computer-Aided Audio Effect Setup Procedure for Untrained Users, AES Paper 8005 (128th AES Convention, 2010)
• D. Black, K. Gohlke, J. Loviscach, FoleySonic: Placing Sounds on a Timeline Through Gestures, AES Paper 8004 (128th AES Convention, 2010)
• K. Gohlke, S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, FlexiKnobs: Bridging the Gap Between Mouse Interaction and Hardware
  Controllers, Proceedings of TEI 2010, pp. 241-244, paper and comments at MIT, video
• S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, Automatic Cloning of Recorded Sounds by Software Synthesizers, AES Paper 7858 (127th AES Convention, 2009)
• S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, Editing MIDI Data Based on the Acoustic Result, AES Paper 7863 (127th AES Convention, 2009)
• K. Gohlke, M. Hlatky, D. Black, J. Loviscach, Enhanced Mappings for On-Screen Faders, Proceedings of HAID 2009, Vol. II, pp. 22-23
• S. Heise, J.L., Waveforms, not Bricks: a Visually Enriched MIDI Editor, Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2009, pp. 53-56, proceedings
• D. Black, K. Gohlke, S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, A Graph Editor for Remote Composition of Game Music for Small-Scale Game Development, Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2009, pp. 107-110, proceedings
• S. Heise, J.L., A Loudspeaker as Drumhead, Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2009, pp. 117-120, video, proceedings
• K. Gohlke, M. Hlatky, D. Black, J.L., Enhanced Control of On-Screen Faders with a Computer Mouse,
  AES Paper 7738 (126th AES Convention, 2009), video
• S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, Automatic Adjustment of Off-the-Shelf Reverberation Effects, AES Paper 7758 (126th AES Convention, 2009), video
• M. Battermann, S. Heise, J. Loviscach, SonoSketch: Querying Sound Effect Databases through Painting, AES Paper 7794 (126th AES Convention, 2009), video
• D. Black, S. Heise, J. Loviscach, Generic Sound Effects to Aid in Audio Retrieval, AES Paper 7795 (126th AES Convention, 2009)
• S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, Aurally and Visually Enhanced Audio Search with SoundTorch, ACM CHI 2009 Extended Abstracts, pp. 3241-3246, paper
• S. Heise, M. Hlatky, J. Loviscach, SoundTorch: Quick Browsing in Large Audio Collections, AES Paper 7544 (125th Convention, 2008), paper, Google TechTalk, video
• M. Hlatky, S. Heise, J. Loviscach, File System Tricks for Audio Production, AES Paper 7545 (125th Convention, 2008), paper, Google TechTalk (fast forward to 24:00)
• S. Heise, J. Loviscach, A Versatile Expressive Percussion Instrument with Game Technology, Proceedings of IEEE ICME 2008, pp. 393-396, paper in IEEE Xplore
• S. Heise, J. Loviscach, Real-Time Lettering on 3D Signs with a 2D Font Engine, Eurographics 2007 Short Papers and Medical Prize Awards, pp. 89-92, paper