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GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus
GuitarPie: Using the Fretboard of an Electric Guitar for Audio-Based Pie Menu Interaction (ACM UIST 2025) - Frank Heyen, Marius Labudda, Michael Sedlmair, Andreas Fender
Nowadays, electric guitars are often used together with digital interfaces. For instance, tablature applications can support guitar practice by rendering and playing back the tabs of individual instrument tracks of a song (guitar, drums, etc.). However, those interfaces are typically controlled via mouse and keyboard or via touch input. This means that controlling and configuring playback during practice can lead to high switching costs, as learners often need to switch between playing and interface control. In this paper, we explore the use of audio input from an unmodified electric guitar to enable interface control without letting go of the guitar. We present GuitarPie, an audio-based pie menu interaction method. GuitarPie utilizes the grid-like structure of a fretboard to spatially represent audio-controlled operations, avoiding the need to memorize note sequences. Furthermore, we implemented TabCtrl, a tablature interface that uses GuitarPie and other audio-based interaction methods for interface control.
PDF: https://andreasfender.com/publications/PDFs/GuitarPie_authorgenerated.pdf https://andreasfender.com/publications/PDFs/GuitarPie_author...
Pie Menu:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
https://donhopkins.medium.com/pie-menus-936fed383ff1 https://donhopkins.medium.com/pie-menus-936fed383ff1
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- DonHopkins 1y agoCombining the GuitarPie with the Voystick (vocal joystick) would rock! Keyboard and voice navigation, analog "voystick" vocal joystick formant/pitch tracking: Voystick: https://github.com/elisaoh/mypystick https://github.com/elisaoh/mypystick Vocal Joystick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXmccs4GIqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXmccs4GIqI Vocal Joystick Home Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20100626050314/http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/vj/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100626050314/http://ssli.ee.wa... University of Washington: Department of Linguistic: The Vocal Joystick https://linguistics.washington.edu/research/projects-and-grants/vocal-joystick https://linguistics.washington.edu/research/projects-and-gra...
- greenspam 1y agoCool! And your last name is Fender.
- DonHopkins 1y agoAlso this funky citation: Markus Funk, Vanessa Tobisch, and Adam Emfield. 2020. Non-Verbal Auditory Input for Controlling Binary, Discrete, and Continuous Input in Automotive User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Honolulu, HI, USA) (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376816 https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376816
- chrisweekly 1y agoTalk about nominative determinism! Fender and Funk?
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- sublinear 1y agoThis is cool, but I'm having a hard time seeing this working in a real product. Guitarists have been using their picking hand or pedal controls since the beginning of the electric guitar without much fuss or concern. I also thought pie menus died off because everyone decided they were too limited, hard to understand, and overall annoying regardless of the input method.
- DonHopkins 1y ago[dead]
- retrochameleon 1y agoWell, pie menus tend to work pretty well in video games in various contexts. Commo-rose style communication callout menus are a prime example.