Tactile Teacher: Enhancing Traditional Piano Lessons With Tactile Instructions

Tactile Teacher is a pair of fingerless gloves that senses a piano teacher's finger tapping and actuates corresponding vibration motors on the student's glove. In this paper, we briefly introduce the gloves and report preliminary results from a user study with 13 subjects. The study shows that the system improves the playing accuracy of subjects without musical instrument experience by roughly 13%. However, no significant effects on the subjects with musical instrument experience were observed. We conclude the paper with future works and the potential impacts of Tactile Teacher on real-time active learning.