Tag Archives: Mobile communication

Testing Polly Compose App

Rhyme’s design and development team is currently doing the last tests of the Polly Compose APP before the user studies with the families. In the Polly Compose APP the user can interact with the Interactive things at home, Polly Planet, … Continue reading

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Developing 4th generation, distributed and social media

Currently we are working intensively with the development of the 4th generation of Co-creative Tangibles. The 4th generation of Co-creative Tangibles are in the project plan defined as “distributed and social media”.  In the RHYME project this means that the users … Continue reading

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4th Generation Hardware under development

During the RHYME project so far we have developed a number of hardware platforms. This has been necessary because existing platforms (smartphone, Arduino e.g.)  do not directly offer the functionality and combinations we need, regarding diverse sensors and actuators such as light and speakers. It … Continue reading

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User testing 3rd Generation in March

    During March we will user test 3rd Generation of  RHYME Co-creative Tangibles at Haug. 3rd Generation of tangibles are mobile and all built on iPod Touch as the running computer. Additional we have developed several mobile breakout card (iDevice, … 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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Reflect in Berlin

This year’s co-creative tangibles are mobile and  wireless. We have developed 3 new, additional to last years, hardware mobile platforms to test different concepts and combinations of hardware and software. It has been a challenge to include speakers, microphone and sensors … Continue reading

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New light and battery solutions under development

After the test period in March we have continued to work on new light and battery solutions, for next generations of co-creative tangibles. Even if we were very satisfied with the use and experience of Wave Carpet’s interactive bubble field, … Continue reading

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RHYME at Idéfestivalen 2011

Students related to the RHYME project presented their projects at the Digital Circus Tent during the Idea festival 17. September at the University in Oslo.

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3 new hardware plattforms

During the summer (2011) we have explored, developed and tested several hardware possibilities for future RHYME prototypes.  We have now decided on 3 hardware platforms to develop further. The first and easiest one is based on iPhone/iPod and our own … Continue reading

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