Giggler: An Intuitive, Real-Time Integrated Wireless In-Ear Monitoring and Personal Mixing System using Mobile Devices

For live music performances, current Wireless In-Ear Monitoring and Personal Mixing setups require a lot of equipment and wiring. This paper introduces Giggler, a system that makes a Wireless In-Ear Monitoring and Personal Mixing experience, easier to setup, easier to use, faster to control and more accessible for musicians than conventional systems by integrating all equipment into one mobile device per musician. The results of the two user studies that we conducted show that Giggler''s User Interface performs up to more than twice as fast as a traditional mixer and indicate that Giggler outperforms a Physical mixer because visual features are added to streamline the channel identification process.