GuitarPie: Using the Fretboard of an Electric Guitar for Audio-Based Pie Menu Interaction
summary
GuitarPie maps menu items to locations on the electric guitar fretboard so playing a note opens an audio-based pie menu and neighboring string/fret notes select items; it controls a tablature app called TabCtrl without extra hardware. Implementation uses a microphone/amp or USB amp, a basic pitch library to convert audio to note events, and optionally MIDI pickups for lower latency. A design workshop plus a qualitative one-hour study with five guitarists shows learnable muscle memory, customizable mappings, and practical limits on menu size.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to GuitarPie
- 1:12Related work on guitar input
- 2:36Design workshop findings
- 4:42How GuitarPie works
- 6:07Menu interaction vs playing
- 7:09Audio capture setups
- 8:33Qualitative evaluation results
- 10:02Future use cases and extensions
- 10:25Conclusion and summary
- 10:47Q&A session
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