welfare technology https://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:41:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.7 RHYME at EHiN 2016 conference https://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme/?p=4705 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:36:26 +0000 http://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme/?p=4705 Continue reading →]]> RHYME on EHiN 2016RHYME participated and contributed in several ways at this year’s EHiN conference. The conference, with the title “Shaping the future of health”,  was arranged in the Spectrum hall in Oslo, from 14th to 16th November 2016. The EHiN conference is the largest and most important conference within e-health, welfare technology and health technology.

RHYME contributed with both a talk/presentation and exhibited Polly World at The Research Council of Norway’s stand in the exhibition hall. RHYME member Anders-Petter Andersson and Fredrik Olofsson demonstrated Polly Ocean, Polly Planet and Polly Fire and the Polly Compose App at the stand.

RHYME member Birgitta Cappelen presented her talk with the title “Vitalizing Welfare Technology – a new paradigm in health technology” during Session B2: Design for Healthcare on the 15th November.
In the abstract she wrote: “Welfare technology often focus on diagnosis, biomedical data and medicine. But health promotion is also about vitality, communication and participation. In The Research Council of Norway financed project, RHYME, we have developed several generations of social, mobile and multi-medial health promoting technologies. These technologies offer new embodied, sensorial, musical and distributed experiences and ways to evoke vitality, co-creation, and strengthen one’s own resources and relations.”

Olaug plays on Polly Ocean

Download the RHYME brochure here

]]> Intensive Design Work is going on https://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme/?p=4525 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:46:26 +0000 http://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme/?p=4525 Visit at ALMAS House to experience existing Welfare Technology

Almashus-1 Almashus Pressure Sensor Almashus Pressure Sensor in Bed Almashus Fjernkontroll

Intensive work in the Class Room

WorkInClass-1 Workshop-Notes1 WS-Presentation2 WS-Presentation1

Material and shape explorations

YarnExploration YarnExploration2 YarnExploration3 YarnExploration4

Bird Exploration  Birdexploration2 Bird Exploration expression1 Birdexploration3

]]> The “Vitalising Welfare Technology” course has started https://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme/?p=4509 Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:16:59 +0000 http://musicalfieldsforever.com/rhyme/?p=4509 Continue reading →]]> workshopToday, 12th October, the master course “Vitalising Welfare Technology” started with an extensive workshop with residents, caregivers, family, experts and designers at Sagenehjemmet. The workshop was a great success and the groups created over 40 ideas for new concepts of welfare technology, and gathered important insights for future work.

The “Vitalising Welfare Technology” course is a module within Tangible Interaction for master students in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The course is a starting collaboration on welfare technology, between Diakonhjemmet University College and  Institute of Design at AHO.

During the course, the students will create welfare technology based on the 5th generation of the RHYME technology platform, which is an upgraded version of what we used in Polly World for the wireless modules (Polly Planet, Polly Ocean and Polly Fire).  The goal is to create welfare technology for vitalisation and health improvement of the persons living at care homes. This is welfare technology designed from a person’s point-of-view (humanistic health approach), not, as often done today, as a mediation of existing health services, where the goal is  control, measurement and management of bio-medical data.

The end presentation will be at Sagenehjemmet 30th October at 13.00. The exhibition of the designed welfare technology will be in Sagenehuset and starts after the presentation at 16.00. Welcome!

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