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RHYME at Universal Design 2016

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 … Continue reading

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RHYME presentation and workshop in Nordplus network

RHYME members Anders-Petter Andersson and Birgitta Cappelen were invited to contribute with lecture and Polly World Workshop at the SPEDUTEC meeting in Goethenburg from November 2nd to 4th. “SPEDUTEC is a project supported by the Nordplus Horizontal Programme under the Nordic … Continue reading

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The “Vitalising Welfare Technology” course has started

Today, 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 … Continue reading

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Polly World exhibition at Kunst og Designhall in Oslo

At 18.00 on Tuesday April 14th is the opening of the first public exhibition of Polly World at Kunst og Designhall HiOA (old Art Academy in St. Olavgate 32).  Polly World will also be open for visitors from 16.00 to … Continue reading

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RHYME at NIME 2014

On 3rd July RHYME member Anders-Petter Andersson made a presentation of a paper by himself, Birgitta Cappelen and Fredrik Olofsson at NIME 2014. The title of their paper is “Designing Sound for Recreation and Well-Being”.  NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, … Continue reading

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RHYME at Innovation camp – sound and light in health care

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 … Continue reading

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RHYME at CHI 2013 in Paris

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 … Continue reading

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Amazing student projects

Friday 2. November the master course in Tangible Interaction, Sensorial and Musical Interaction at AHO, ended with an open student presentation and exhibition. Birgitta started the presentation by giving an overview over the RHYME project, the student courses led by … Continue reading

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Students create new Musicking Tangibles concepts

       The second week of the course Sensorial and Musical interaction the students assignment was to develop new concepts of Musicking Tangibles. The Musicking Tangibles had to be wireless, interactive things, that motivated the whole family to music together in … Continue reading

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RHYMEs Sensorial and Musical Interaction course started

The master course  Sensorial and Musical Interaction course, which is run by RHYME’s development team (Birgitta, Fredrik and Anders-Petter) and related to RHYME, started at AHO 8th October.  The course started with an excursion to StatsPed/Torshov Kompetansesenters large exhibition and introduction … Continue reading

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