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// to produce tools for early musical education
and training of acoustic perception
In their first few years, children develop their elementary and
most important skills. They learn how to move, to handle objects,
to speak and to understand language. This happens through their
actions and by experimenting with, observing and imitating their
environment. All the senses, especially tactile, visual and auditory
perception, play a major role in this period.
Early musical education offers a great variety of approaches for
stimulating, practising and teaching sound and music to pre-school
children. SOUNDGARTEN provides tools to support the practice of
early musical education based on new electronic and digital technologies.
//to encourage collaborative action
A problem with classical ãWIMPÒ- Interfaces (Windows, Mouse, Pointer)
is that they hinder, rather than enhance, co-located collaboration.
. When children play or work with materials (e.g. building blocks),
often several will work simultaneously with a given object. With
this in mind, the new interface aims at encouraging collaborative
action.
//To develop new approaches in the field of
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
We, the current generation of adults, have grown up with a specific
way of dealing with computers. We adapted to the ãways of the machineÒ
more than we adapted the interface to our ways of experiencing the
world. The classical Graphical User Interface (GUI) is still an
important tool. In terms of usability however, much could be improved.
Many researchers and designers have started to look for new approaches
toHCI which include the other senses and more ãhuman-likeÒ ways
of communicating. Developing ãtoys for childrenÒ in the context
of interface design gives more room for experimentation than trying
to create an altogether new approach for an already precisely defined
application. In designing toys, digital tools included, the adult
is asked to ãbecome a childÒ and to discover the digital world from
scratch.
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/Goals
//to produce tools
for early musical education and training of acoustic perception
//to encourage
collaborative action
//To develop new
approaches in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
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