Matt

@mattdavison
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Digital Musical Instrument, Haptics & HCI researcher (PhD Candidate) within the Augmented Instruments Lab at Imperial College London. Embedded software engineer.

Alongside our lab co-hosting #NIME2026, I'll also be presenting a paper there! Our paper "Techniques for Closely-Coupled Sensing and Actuation in Digital Musical Instruments" (by me, Adam Schmidt, and @amcpherson) explores methods of sensing and actuating for hybrid instruments

If you're at NIME (in-person in London or online) catch the talk in paper session 1B! Read the paper here: https://davisonaudio.github.io/files/davison_et_al_nime2026.pdf

Coming to NIME 2026 or in London at the end of June anyway? Come along to our lab open day on 27/06! We'll be demoing our work (including @amcpherson's magnetic resonator piano) and you can submit a proposal for a demo of your own work! Sign up here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rTgMiXpXd6
Coming to #NIME2026 or in London at the end of June anyway? Come along to our lab open day on 27/06! We'll be demoing our work (including @amcpherson's magnetic resonator piano) and you can submit a proposal for a demo of your own work! Sign up here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rTgMiXpXd6

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattdavison/116277304283282325

This #CHI2026 paper is now available on the ACM digital library! Find it here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3791190

Alongside presenting our paper at #CHI2026 (see previous post for details), I'll also be attending the "Are We Doing Enough" workshop on Tuesday and the workshop "AI for Haptics and Haptics for AI" on Thursday. See a summary of everything I'm doing at CHI here: https://davisonaudio.github.io/posts/2026/04/chi2026/

(Photo is from presenting the CHI paper at CockneyCHI a couple of weeks ago, held at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattdavison/116277304283282325

If you're attending #CHI2026, catch my talk on Wednesday in the “Co-Design in Motion & High-Stakes Contexts” paper session (11:15AM-12:45PM in P1 - Room 111, my talk is 12:03PM). If you're not in Barcelona, catch a video of the presentation at the link in the attached post!

Tomorrow 11am UK time: join us for an Augmented Instruments Lab Open Seminar by Tom Richards on Daphne Oram and Oramics. Tom will introduce Oram's pioneering instrument design work and present his Mini-Oramics machine, a portable version of the original Oramics which he created based on Oram's original design ideas. Streaming here: https://youtube.com/live/k-8HMXT5Efc?feature=share
AIL Open Seminars #012 – Tom Richards

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In a few weeks I'll be heading to #CHI2026 to present our paper "Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings" (by me & @amcpherson). The paper details a design study where we gave digital musical instrument designers a "HaptiCoupler" kit that we created, which can enable simultaneous vibrotactile output and vibration sensing. Read more about it here: https://davisonaudio.github.io/chi2026/
Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings

Exploring the design of digital musical instruments with bidirectional tactile interaction through a user study. This study investigates the potential design and interaction implications when tradional unidirectional mapping paradigms are swapped out for bidirectional haptic interaction.

Imperial College London
(4/4) Find all the details (including schematic, audio examples, etc) in the paper here: https://dafx25.dii.univpm.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/DAFx25_paper_55.pdf
(3/4) We demonstrate the idea by replacing the diodes in a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal with our synthetic impedance system, while keeping the rest of the system in the analog domain. This provides a proof of concept, but there's lots more exciting ideas to explore!