Biography:

Christian Frisson is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary with the Interactions Lab (2025-present) and associate researcher at the IDMIL (2021-present). Christian was previously postdoctoral researcher at McGill University with the IDMIL (2019-2020), at the University of Calgary with the Interactions Lab and at Inria in France with the Mjolnir team. He obtained his PhD at the University of Mons, numediart Institute, in Belgium; and his Master in Science in “Art, Science, Technology” from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble with the Association for the Creation and Research on Expression Tools (ACROE), in France, and his Master in Engineering in Acoustics and Metrology from Ecole d’Ingénieurs – Le Mans Université (ENSIM), in France.

His postdoctoral research at the IDMIL was co-funded by Mitacs and Haply Robotics Inc. through Elevate grants IT12555 and IT12556: Designing Soft+Stiff Haptic Interactions with Opensource Authoring Toolkits.

Research Areas:

• Embedded Systems
• Haptics: Tactile and Force-Feedback
• Hardware Development
• Interface Design
• Interface Evaluation
• Sensors
• Software Development
• Sonification

Projects

Publications:

• Kirkegaard, M., Bredholt, M., Frisson, C., Wanderley, M. M. (2020). TorqueTuner: A self contained module for designing rotary haptic force feedback for digital musical instruments. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) (pp. 6). Birmingham, UK.
• Wanderley, M. M., Bredholt, M., Frisson, C. (2020). A Visualization Tool for the CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series. In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Frisson, C., Decaudin, J., Sanz-Lopez, M., Pietrzak, T. (2020). Printgets: an Open-Source Toolbox for Designing Vibrotactile Widgets with Industrial-Grade Printed Actuators and Sensors. In International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID). Montreal, Canada.
• Frisson, C., Bredholt, M., Malloch, J., Wanderley, M. M. (2021). MapLooper: Live-looping of distributed gesture-to-sound mappings. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021). Shanghai, China.
• Skarha, M., Cusson, V., Frisson, C., Wanderley, M. M. (2021). Le Bâton: A Digital Musical Instrument Based on the Chaotic Triple Pendulum. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021). Shanghai, China.
• Calegario, F., Tragtenberg, J., Frisson, C., Meneses, E., Malloch, J., Cusson, V., Wanderley, M. M. (2021). Documentation and Replicability in the NIME Community. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021).. Shanghai, China.
• Wanderley, M. M., West, T., Rohs, J., Meneses, E. A. L., Frisson, C. (2021). The IDMIL Digital Audio Workbench: An interactive online application for teaching digital audio concepts. In Audio Mostly 2021 Conference. Trento, Italy.
• Verdugo, F., Ceglia, A., Frisson, C., Burton, A., Begon, M., Gibet, S., Wanderley, M. M. (2022). Feeling the Effort of Classical Musicians – A Pipeline from Electromyography to Smartphone Vibration for Live Music Performance. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2022).
• Frisson, C., Kirkegaard, M., Pietrzak, T., Wanderley, M. M. (2022). ForceHost: An Open-source Toolchain for Generating Firmware Embedding the Authoring and Rendering of Audio and Force-feedback Haptics. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2022). Auckland, NZ.
• Boettcher, B., Meneses, E., Frisson, C., Wanderley, M. M., Malloch, J. (2023). Addressing Barriers for Entry and Operation of a Distributed Signal Mapping Framework. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2023). Mexico City, MX.
• Frisson, C., Wanderley, M. M. (2023). Challenges and Opportunities of Force Feedback in Music. In Arts. Paterson and Marcelo Wanderley, J. M. (Eds.). MDPI.
• Piao, Z., Frisson, C., Van Kerrebroeck, B., Wanderley, M. M. (2024). Assessing the Impact of Force Feedback in Musical Knobs on Performance and User Experience. In Actuators (pp. 15). Mohammadi, A., Martinez-Hernandez, U. (Eds.).

Contacts:

• Email: christian@frisson.re
• Website: https://frisson.re/