musicking with smart things, jo herstad, uio
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VERDIKT conference 2012TRANSCRIPT
Musicking with smart things
5th VERDIKT conference April 26th 2012
Agenda
• The RHYME project
• Musicking
• Smart Things
• Universal Design
The RHYME project
• RHYME: co‐creaKon through tangible interacKon and music
• Goal: to improve health and well‐being for people with severe disabiliKes
• User tesKng at Haug School spring 2011 and spring 2012; design and build prototypes
ParKcipants
• AHO; Oslo School of Architecture and Design InteracKon Design Group (project owner)
• Norwegian Academy of Music; Center for Music and Health
• University of Oslo; InsKtute of InformaKcs
Users
• Children with severe disabiliKes
• Assistants
• Families, parents and siblings
Musicking
“To music is to take part in any capacity in a musical performance, and the meaning of musicking lies in the relaKonships that are established between the parKcipants by the performance” (Christopher Small, 1999)
Smart things
• Smart
• Things
• Tangible InteracKon
• Co‐creaKve tangibles
ORFI – first prototype
InteracKon with ORFI
WAVE – second prototype
InteracKon with WAVE
Universal Design
• ParKcipatory Design • What we talk about when we talk about co‐creaKve tangibles; involve all
• Familiarity • Engagement • Understanding • RelaKonship with “things”
• Tangible interacKon • From “metaphor” to “familiarity” • Distributed • Parallel
New prototypes and tesKng
• Tangible mobile in social networks
• Tangible distributed; mulKmodal
• Involve family members
www.RHYME.no
Thanks