Torin Hopkins

Torin Hopkins is a triple PhD student in ATLAS, neuroscience and cognitive science. His research focuses on the future of music interaction and collaboration. Hopkins researches how players interact with music and seeks to explore new methods of interaction using techniques from HCI, neuroscience, psychology, music cognition and design. Hopkins, a music teacher of 12 years and lifelong performer, is passionate about music collaboration, music education and new forms of interaction in music using computers. Systems developed and studied by Torin include technologies such as AR/VR/XR/holograms, networked music, augmented instruments/notation, brain-computer interfaces and AI-assisted music systems. Torin is advised by Ellen Do, professor of computer science and director of the ACME lab at the ATLAS Institute.

Projects

• Jam Station
• Jam Tabs
• Shared Reality

Publications

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che Chuan Weng, Rishi Vanukuru, Sasha Novack, Chad Tobin, Emma Wenzel, Amy Banic, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. “XR Jam: Design Considerations for Music Networking with AI in XR,”  In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR). (Los Angeles, CA, Jan 17-19 2024)

Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Krithik Zanjan, Torin Hopkins, Amy Banic, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023 "DualStream: Spatially Sharing Selves and Surroundings using Mobile Devices and Augmented Reality". In: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). (Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).

Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance”. In: Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).

Torin Hopkins, Alvin Jude, Greg Phillips, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Virtual AI Jam: AI-Driven Virtual Musicians for Human-in-the-Loop Musical Improvisation“. In: Proceedings of AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Rhythmic Conversations”. In: Proceedings of AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).

Suibi Che–Chuan Weng, Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Chad Tobin, Amy Banic, ​​Daniel Leithinger, and Ellen Yi–Luen Do. 2023. “How Field of View Affects Awareness of an Avatar During a Musical Task in Augmented Reality”. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023). 

Hopkins Torin, Weng Suibi Che Chuan, Vanukuru Rishi, Wenzel Emma A., Banic Amy, Gross Mark D., Do Ellen Yi-Luen (2022), AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR, , Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3, Article 847284  (11 pages), online Aug 19, 2022, URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.847284, DOI=10.3389/frvir.2022.847284

Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Amy Banic, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration, ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47: Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments. pdf  (New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).

T. Hopkins, S. C. -C. Weng, R. Vanukuru, E. Wenzel, A. Banic and E. Y. -L. Do, "How Late is Too Late? Effects of Network Latency on Audio-Visual Perception During AR Remote Musical Collaboration," 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2022, pp. 686-687, doi: 10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00194. (Christchurch, New Zealand—March12-16, 2022).

Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. The Jam Station: Gamifying Collaborative Musical Experiences Through Algorithmic Assessment. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 58, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442466 (Salzburg, Austria (virtual)–Feb. 14-19, 2021).

Torin Hopkins, S. Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. User Interfaces in Smart Cities (book chapter). In Handbook of Smart Cities. Springer Publishing Company, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15145-4_94-1

Sarah Beemer, Zak Boston, April Bukoski, Daniel Chen, Princess Dickens, Andrew Gerlach, Torin Hopkins, Parth Anand Jawale, Chris Koski, Akanksha Malhotra, Piyush Mishra, Saliha Muradoglu, Lan Sang, Tyler Short, Sagarika Shreevastava, Elizabeth Spaulding, Testumichi Umada, Beilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, Mans Hulden. 2020. Linguist vs. Machine: Rapid Development of Finite-State Morphological Grammars, in Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, July 2020, 162-170. (Seattle, Washington (virtual)–July 10, 2020).

Torin Hopkins and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. Jam Tabs: A Color Based Notation System for Novice Improvisation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR'20) (Hamburg, Germany–May 12-14, 2020). (Due to COVID-19, conference moved to 2021; proceedings published in 2020).