| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L99029/01 |
| Title: |
AN AUTOMATED EAR TRAINING TOOL FOR TRAINEE MUSICIANS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wiggins, Professor GA |
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Artificial Intelligence |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
16 February 1998 |
Ends: |
15 September 1999 |
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53,020
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| Human-Computer Interactions |
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This proposal aims to investigate the potential of computer aided learning in a domain involving fundamental perceptual behaviour: ear training. This attempt addresses several needs: for a better understanding of the perceptual learning issues involved; for a practical alternative to specialist-labour-intensive teaching of aural training by instrumental specialists; for a means by which students can overcome difficulties created by performance anxiety in front of human listeners. A modular, declarative logical model is proposed, which will allow separation of the course specification, the teaching methods, and the student model in a way which will facilitate research in each. The intention is that the model will be flexible enough to correlate the performance of different learning strategies with the student's rate of improvement, and favour the strategies which suit the student. Also, since some of the strategies will be verbal (using the speech technology now standard in PC operating systems), visually-impaired students will be able to use the system, as it were, by default. Controlled experiments with 8-12 year olds will be carried out using the prototype developed, and thus its success will be evaluated.
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