Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Canada

Associate Researcher
Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

• Email: joseph [dot] malloch [at] dal [dot] ca
• Web: http://www.josephmalloch.com

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Design, construction, performance and evaluation of digital musical instruments
• Haptics
• Interactive systems

• B.A. Music - Dalhousie University (Canada) 2000
• M.A. Music Technology - McGill University (Canada) 2007
• Ph.D. Music Technology, McGill University (Canada) 2014

• Mapping tools for digital musical instruments
  • libmapper
  • The Digital Orchestra Toolbox
  • EMERGE
• Interface Design
  • Gestes
  • The T-Stick
  • The Interactive Table
  • The Hyper-Kalimba
  • The Celloboard
  • The MiniBee
  • Dimension spaces for interface comparison
• Gesture control of spatialization
• McGill Digital Orchestra
• Integra
• SensorWiki.org

• Advances in the Design of Mapping for Computer Music. Marcelo M. Wanderley and Joseph Malloch – Guest editors. Computer Music Journal vol. 38, number 3, Fall 2014.

• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Generalized Multi-Instance Control Mapping for Interactive Media Systems." IEEE MultiMedia, 25(1), January–March 2018.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Distributed Tools for Interactive Design of Heterogeneous Signal Networks." Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, February 2014, DOI 10.1007/s11042-014-1878-5.

• Joseph Malloch, Jérémie Garcia, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Wendy E. Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Stéphane Huot. “A Design Workbench for Interactive Music Systems”. To appear in Simon Holland, Katie Wilkie, Tom Mudd, Andrew McPherson, and Marcelo M. Wanderley, eds. Music and Human Computer Interaction: Remixed, Springer Verlag, upcoming (2018).
• Joseph Malloch and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Embodied Cognition and Digital Musical Instruments: Design and Performance”. In Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman and Pieter-Jan Maes, eds. The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction, Routledge, 2017, pp. 440–449.
• David Birnbaum, Rebecca Fiebrink, Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Towards a Dimension Space for Musical Devices”. In Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Michael Lyons, eds. A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of new Interfaces for Musical Expression, Springer Verlag, 2017.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Avrum Hollinger and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Input Devices and Music Interaction" In Jorge Solis and Kia Ng, eds. Musical Robots and Interactive Music Systems, Springer Verlag, 2011.

• Joseph Malloch (2013). A Framework and Tools for Mapping of Digital Musical Instruments. Ph.D. thesis, Music Technology, McGill University, Montréal.
• Joseph Malloch (2007). A Consort of Gestural Musical Controllers: Design, Construction, and Performance. MA thesis, Music Technology, McGill University, Montréal.

• Mark T. Marshall, Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2009). Gesture Control of Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance. In M. S. Dias, S. Gibet, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and R. Bastos (Eds.): Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, LNCS 5085. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, pp. 227–238.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2008). A network-based framework for collaborative development and performance of digital musical instruments. In R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad, and K. Jensen (Eds.): CMMR 2007, - Proc. of Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2007 Conference, LNCS 4969. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 401–425.

• Joseph Malloch, Marlon Schumacher, Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “The Digital Orchestra Toolbox for Max”. To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Blacksburg, USA, 2018.
• Alex Nieva, Johnty Wang, Joseph Malloch and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Tackling Obsolescence in Digital Musical Instruments – A Case Study: Twelve Years of the T-Stick”. To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Blacksburg, USA, 2018.
• Johnty Wang, Joseph Malloch, Stéphane Huot, Fanny Chevalier and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Versioning and Annotation Support for Collaborative Mapping Design.” In Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Espoo, Finland, 2017.
• Joseph Malloch, Carla Griggio, Joanna McGrenere and Wendy E. Mackay. “Fieldward and Pathward: Dynamic Guides for Defining your own Gestures.” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, USA, 2017.
• Nabil Bin Hannan, Khalid Tearo, Joseph Malloch and Derek Reilly. “Once More, with Feeling: Expressing Emotional Intensity in Touchscreen Gestures.” In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017), Limassol, Cyprus, 2017.
• Jessalyn Alvina, Joseph Malloch and Wendy E. Mackay. “Expressive Keyboards: Enriching Gesture-Typing on Mobile Devices.” In UIST ’16: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2016.
• Jeronimo Costa, Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley and Stéphane Huot. “What does 'Evaluation' mean for the NIME Community?” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2015), Baton Rouge, USA, 2015.
• Ian Hattwick, Joseph Malloch and Marcelo M. Wanderley. Forming Shapes to Bodies: Design for Manufacturing in the Prosthetic Instruments. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2014), pp. 443–448, London, UK.
• Xenia Pestova, Erika Donald, Heather Hindman, Joseph Malloch, Mark T. Marshall, Fernando Rocha, Stephen Sinclair, D. Andrew Stewart, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Sean Ferguson. ”The CIRMMT/McGill Digital Orchestra Project.” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC09), pp. 295-298, Montreal, Qc., Canada.
• Fernando Rocha and Joseph Malloch (2009). The Hyper-Kalimba: Developing and Augmented Instrument from a Performer's Perspective. In Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Porto, Portugal, pp. 25–29.
• Otso Lähdeoja, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Joseph Malloch (2009). Instrument Augmentation using Ancillary Gestures for Subtle Sonic Effects. In Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Porto, Portugal, pp. 327–330.
• Marije A. J. Baalman, Harry C. Smoak, Christopher L. Salter, Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. ”Sharing Data in Collaborative, Interactive Performances: the SenseWorld DataNetwork.” In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME09).
• Georgios Marentakis, Joseph Malloch, Nils Peters, Mark T. Marshall, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Steven McAdams (2008). Influence of performance gestures on the identification of spatial sound trajectories in a concert hall, in Proc. of the The 14th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 08), Paris, France.
• Alexander R. Jensenius, Nicolas Castagné, Antonio Camurri, Esteban Maestre, Joseph Malloch, and Douglas McGilvray (2007). A summary of formats for streaming and storing music-related movement and gesture data. In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Grenoble, France, pp. 125-128.
• Mark T. Marshall, Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2007). Non-conscious control of sound spatialization. In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Grenoble, France, pp. 377-380.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2007). From controller to sound: Tools for collaborative development of digital musical instruments. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007, pp. 65-72.
• Alexander R. Jensenius, Antonio Camurri, Nicolas Castagne, Esteban Maestre, Joseph Malloch, Douglas McGilvray, Diemo Schwarz and Matthew Wright (2007). Panel: the Need of Formats for Streaming and Storing Music-Related Movement and Gesture Data. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 13-16.
• Mark T. Marshall, Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2007). Gesture Control of Spatialization. Presented at the 7th International workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation (GW2007), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2007). The T-Stick: From Musical Interface to Musical Instrument. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York, USA, 2007, pp. 66-69.
• Marcelo M. Wanderley, David Birnbaum, Joseph Malloch, Elliot Sinyor, and Julien Boissinot (2006). SensorWiki.org: A Collaborative Resource for Researchers and Interface Designers. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 180-183.
• Denis Lebel and Joseph Malloch (2006). The G-Spring Controller. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 85-88.
• Joseph Malloch, David Birnbaum, Elliot Sinyor and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2006). Towards a new conceptual framework for digital musical instruments. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-06), Montreal, Canada, pp. 49-52.
• David Birnbaum, Rebecca Fiebrink, Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2005). Towards a Dimension Space for Musical Artifacts. In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME05), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 192-195.

• Joseph Malloch. “Toward Rich, Continuous Representation and Interaction.” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2018), Montreal, Canada, 2018.
• Juliano Franz, Joseph Malloch, Vinicius Sanches and Derek Reilly. “SpaceHopper: Bounce Your Way to Galactic Domination.” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2018), Montreal, Canada, 2018.
• Juliano Franz, Joseph Malloch, and Derek Reilly. “Exploring Shared Immersive Visualization in AR.” In Extended Abstracts of VIS 2017, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2017.
• Marcelo M. Wanderley, Stéphane Huot, Joseph Malloch, Jérémie Garcia, Wendy Mackay and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. “Human Computer Interaction meets Computer Music – The MIDWAY Project.” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2016), San Jose, USA, 2016.
• Simon Holland, Andrew McPherson, Wendy MacKay, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Michael Gurevich, Tom Mudd, Sile O’Modhrain, Katie Wilkie, Joseph Malloch, Jérémie Garcia, Andrew Johnston. “Music and HCI Workshop.” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2016), San Jose, USA, 2016.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2013). Libmapper (A Library for connecting Things). In Proceedings of the International Conference on HUman Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Paris, France, pp. 3087-3090.
• Andrew Stewart and Joseph Malloch (2010). Everybody to the power of one, for soprano T-Stick. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’10), New York, NY, USA, pp. 3093-3096.