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Email: Homepage: http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~tetterood
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Titel: | Design of an interactive playground based on traditional children's play. |
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University of Twente (HMI) | | Plaats: | Enschede |
| Land: | Nederland |
| Begindatum: | 04-01-2010 |
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| Begeleider: | Betsy van Dijk |
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Being overweight is a growing problem amongst children. They spend an increasing amount of time on passive activities like computer gaming and less time on physical activities like outdoor play. Although health care programs promote a healthier youth, children are unlikely to give up much of their computer time in favour of outdoor play. A possible solution to this problem would be a combination of computer games and traditional, physical outdoor play.
This thesis presents a novel method for interactive playground design, based on traditional children's play. This method combines the rich interaction possibilities of computer games with the physical and open-ended aspects of traditional children's games. The method is explored by the development of a prototype interactive playground, which has been implemented and evaluated over two iterations.
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A multi-touch table is used to create electronic music compositions. The proposed system is gets its inspiration from a system called reacTogon1. This system gives a user the possibility to produce music by placing physical tokens on hexagonal structure, projected on a touchable surface. This hexagonal structure is called Harmonic Table and is a mathematically clever way of placing musical notes. In this structure, going sideways from a note yields in the note which is a semi-tone higher or lower (for example C-Cis). Going up produces a quant (for example: C-G). Going diagonal produces a 5 semi-tone distance (for example C-E). Users will be able to draw forms (lines) onto the surface of the touch-table. Each form is transformed into a melody (a string of sequentially played notes), by mapping it (spatially) onto the underlying Harmonic Table. A user touching multiple spots at once, creates a chord (the mapped notes will be played in ensemble). Multiple users can use the instrument at the same time, by each drawing their own figures onto the surface. These figures will be drawn in different colours, one for each user. The musical part of the installation will consist of a software synthesizer who’s tone can be controlled by adjusting a few slides on the sides of the table’s surface. Again, each user will have its own synthesizer and therefore will be able to control the tone of his/her composition. The multi-user aspect encourages users to construct a combined composition, in which each user plays an own role with an own instrument. The chosen method gives users individual freedom, but also encourages them to work together and produce beautiful music. The underlying Harmonic Table should ensure that producing such music will be a lot easier compared to the FeelSound application, currently developed on the UT. |
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