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An Entertainment System for Improving Motivation in Repeated Practice of Musical Instruments

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Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Applications and Services (HCI 2007)

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Repeated practice is important to learn playing musical instruments, but it is quite boring and monotone, so many learners stop learning. MIPS (Musical Instruments Practice Supporter) is an entertainment system for improving motivation for a learner of electronic instruments such as electronic piano. In MIPS, a learner breeds his/her own character which grows up reflecting his/her amount of effort to practice an electronic instrument, and a battle game is held at weekend for all learners’ characters, in which the characters fight each other. It stimulates a learner’s motivation for practice. In this paper, we introduce MIPS and a method of estimating a learner’s effort at learning.

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  1. Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan

    Itaru Kuramoto, Yuya Shibata, Yu Shibuya & Yoshihiro Tsujino

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Kuramoto, I., Shibata, Y., Shibuya, Y., Tsujino, Y. (2007). An Entertainment System for Improving Motivation in Repeated Practice of Musical Instruments. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Applications and Services. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4553. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_32

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