VERDIKT conference 2012

1. Musicking with smart things
5th VERDIKT conference
April 26th 2012

2. Agenda
• The RHYME project
• Musicking
• Smart Things
• Universal Design

3. 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

4. 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

5. Users
• Children with severe disabiliKes
• Assistants
• Families, parents and siblings

6. 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)

7. Smart things
• Smart
• Things
• Tangible InteracKon
• Co‐creaKve tangibles

8. ORFI – first prototype

9. InteracKon with ORFI

10. WAVE – second prototype

11. InteracKon with WAVE

12. 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

13. New prototypes and tesKng
• Tangible mobile in social networks
• Tangible distributed; mulKmodal
• Involve family members

14. www.RHYME.no
Thanks