Citing

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If you write a publication that uses Bela, we recommend that you include some of these papers as a reference, depending on the domain of interest:

• hardware and implementation details, real-time: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~andrewm/mcpherson_aes2015.pdf

@inproceedings{mcpherson2015environment,
  title={An environment for submillisecond-latency audio and sensor processing on BeagleBone Black},
  author={McPherson, Andrew and Zappi, Victor},
  booktitle={Audio Engineering Society Convention 138},
  year={2015},
  organization={Audio Engineering Society}
}

• Bela and PureData: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/12653

@article{moro2016making,
  title={Making high-performance embedded instruments with Bela and Pure Data},
  author={Moro, Giulio and Bin, Astrid and Jack, Robert H and Heinrichs, Christian and McPherson, Andrew P and others},
  year={2016},
  publisher={University of Sussex}
}

• low-latency and comparison with other platforms: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/12479

@InProceedings{McPherson2016,
Title = {Action-Sound Latency: Are Our Tools Fast Enough?},
Author = {Andrew McPherson and Robert Jack and Giulio Moro},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
Year = {2016},
Address = {Brisbane, Australia},
Pages = {20--25},
Publisher = {Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University},
Series = {2220-4806},
Volume = {16},
ISBN = {978-1-925455-13-7},
Track = {Papers},
Url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2016/nime2016_paper0005.pdf}
}

• Bela community: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/19132

@inproceedings{morreale2017building,
  title={Building a maker community around an open hardware platform},
  author={Morreale, Fabio and Moro, Giulio and Chamberlain, Alan and Benford, Steve and McPherson, Andrew P},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages={6948--6959},
  year={2017},
  organization={ACM}
}

• Bela and diversity: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3196716

@inproceedings{Stewart:2018:MGN:3196709.3196716,
 author = {Stewart, Rebecca and Skach, Sophie and Bin, Astrid},
 title = {Making Grooves with Needles: Using e-Textiles to Encourage Gender Diversity in Embedded Audio Systems Design},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference},
 series = {DIS '18},
 year = {2018},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-5198-0},
 location = {Hong Kong, China},
 pages = {163--172},
 doi = {10.1145/3196709.3196716},
 publisher = {ACM}
}