Vocal and tangible interaction crossing borders
2013 (English)In: Include Asia 2013 Proceedings: global challenges and local solutions in inclusive design, Conference on inclusive design / [ed] Jeremy Myerson, London: Helen Hamlyn Centre of Design, The Royal College of Art in London, The Hong Kong Design Centre , 2013Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
Our voice and body are important parts of our self-expression and self-experience for all of us. They are also essential for our way to communicate and build relations cross borders such as abilities, ages, locations and backgrounds. Voice, body and tangibility gradually become more important for ICT, due to increased development of tangible interaction and mobile communication. The voice and tangible interaction therefore also become more important for the Universal Design field. In this paper we present and discuss our work with voice and tangible interaction in our ongoing research project RHYME. The goal is to improve health for families, adults and children with disabilities through use of collaborative, musical, tangible and sensorial media. We build on use of voice in Music Therapy, knowledge from multi-sensory stimulation and on a humanistic health approach. Our challenge is to design vocal and tangible interactive media that are sensorially stimulating. Interactive media that through use reduce isolation and passivity and increase empowerment for all the users. We use sound recognition, generative sound synthesis, vibrations and cross-media techniques, to create rhythms, melodies and harmonic chords to stimulate voice-body connections, positive emotions and structures for actions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Helen Hamlyn Centre of Design, The Royal College of Art in London, The Hong Kong Design Centre , 2013.
Keywords [en]
Inclusive Design, Music Technology, Universal Design, Musiccology, Voice, Interactive Music, Music and Health, Tangible Interaction, Interaction Design
National Category
Musicology Design Music Interaction Technologies Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-11177ISBN: 978-1-907342-70-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-11177DiVA, id: diva2:657450
Conference
Include Asia 2013
Projects
Interactive Music CompositionRHYME.no, The Research Council of NorwayMusicalFieldsForever2013-10-192013-10-192021-09-09Bibliographically approved