Published: 19. March 2011
RHYME is for the time being the biggest research project in which the Centre for Music and Health takes part!
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About RHYME
RHYME is a five year research project (2010-2015) financed by Research Council of Norway through the VERDIKT programme. The goal of the RHYME project is to improve health and life quality for persons with various disabilities, through use of “co-creative tangibles”. These are ICT based, mobile, networked and multimodal things, which communicate following musical, narrative and communicative principles. They are interactive, social, intelligent things that motivate people to play, communicate and co-create, and thereby reduce passivity and isolation, and strengthen health and well-being.
In the project we will carry out 4 empirical studies and develop knowledge by design of 3 new generations of co-creative tangibles in collaboration with Haug School and Resource Centre, users and families. We start by test and study the existing ORFI to gain a common understanding and foundation.
The RHYME project is a unique collaboration between leading institutions in the fields of Interaction Design, Tangible Interaction, Industrial Design, Universal Design and Music and Health; Institute of Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Institute of Informatics, University of Oslo and Centre for Music and Health, Norwegian Academy of Music.
Read more about the project here: RHYME.no!
Karette S., 19.3.2011
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