Participatory Design

RHYME at Universal Design 2016

Birgitta — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:42:26 +0000

On August 23rd RHYME members Birgitta Cappelen and Anders-Petter Andersson presented a paper at the Universal Design 2016 conference in York. The biannual Universal Design conference is together with the Inclusive Design conference the most important community within design for people with special needs. This years Universal Design conference have the title “Learning from the past, designing for the future”.

The title of Birgitta and Anders-Petters paper is “Embodied and Distributed Parallel DJing” and focuses on the innovative potential of including people with special needs when designing and creating cultural artifacts and activities. In the paper they argue that “…because of the users’ extreme demands and rich contribution, we ended up creating both a new genre of musical instruments and a new art form. We call this new art form Embodied and Distributed Parallel DJing, and the new genre of instruments for Empowering Multi-Sensorial Things.” Access the Proceedings and paper here.

Here is a video that demonstrate the new practice of Embodied Parallel DJing, where Anders and Birgitta are using their whole body when cutting, scratching (DJing) together in parallel with Polly Ocean and Polly Planet on familiar music tunes that they choose with the RFID-tagged objects.

RHYME at Innovation camp – sound and light in health care

Birgitta — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:31:22 +0000

14. May 2013 members of RHYME development team participated in an Innovation camp about innovative sound and lighting technologies in health institutions to gain new perspectives, user-insights and a wider network within the field. The Innovation camp was arranged by Innovation network “Dansk Lyd” together with OPALL (Offentlige-Private Alliancer) and Innovations network “Dansk Lys” in DTU’s (Technical University of Denmark) new Innovatorium in Lyngby, outside Copenhagen. Read the program (in danish) and about the results on Opall’s home page.

RHYME at CHI 2013 in Paris

Birgitta — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:51:15 +0000

During the CHI 2013 Conference Jo Herstad and Harald Holone presented their paper Three Tensions in Participatory Design for Inclusion under the Design for Children track on May 1st. In the paper they discuss the challenges in “real” Participatory Design in relation to the RHYME project, especially the challenge of working with children with severe disabilities. The CHI Conference is the leading conference within the field of Human Computer Interaction.