Carolina Brum Medeiros

Associate Researcher
Supervisor: Prof. Marcelo M. Wanderley

Email: carolina [dot] medeiros [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca
Web: http://www.carolinabrum.com/
Fax: +1 (514) 398-2962
Phone: +1 (514) 398-4535 ext. 094846

Funding

Capes (Brazilian Research Foundation)

Affiliations

Research Interests

Interfaces: Sensors and Instrumentation
Human-Computer Interaction
Body sensor networks
Sensor fusion and smart sensor networks
Biomechanics

Academic Background

Electrical Engineering (Eng.) - Federal University of Santa Catarina/UFSC (Brasil) 2005
Mechanical Engineering (M.Eng. on Metrology and Instrumentation) - Federal University of Santa Catarina/UFSC (Brasil) 2009
Ph.D. (currently) Music Technology, McGill University (Montreal) 2014

Past Projects

GIBI Lab, research group on body instrumentation
Strain Gage research team at Grante/UFSC
Farrapino, an arduino-like board for wearable applications

Current Projects

The Rulers
sportsemble: project of Responsive Environments Group/MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Eric M. Berkson, M.D (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School),RedSox and C-Motion - Tom Kepple, developer of Visual3D. sportsemble is the master and PhD thesis project of Michael Lapinski under the orientation of Prof. Joseph Paradiso/MIT.
Modular design for sensor research: Legos and 3D printing

Publications

Articles

Carolina Brum Medeiros and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "A Comprehensive Review of Sensors and Instrumentation Methods Used in Musical Expression". Sensors Journal, vol. 14, number 8, MDPI, 2014, pages 13556–13591. DOI: 10.3390/s140813556.

Carolina Brum Medeiros and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Multiple-model Linear Kalman Filter Framework for Unpredictable Signals". IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 14, number 4, IEEE, 2014, pages 979–991. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2291683.

In Proceedings

Carolina Brum Medeiros and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Evaluating of sensor technologies for The Rulers, a kalimba-like Digital Musical Instrument". In Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference, 2011.

Dissertations

Carolina Brum Medeiros. "Advanced Instrumentation and Sensor Fusion in Input Devices for Musical Expression". PhD thesis, McGill University. Thesis defended on March 30, 2015.