Student project

The “Vitalising Welfare Technology” course has started

Birgitta — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:16:59 +0000

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 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!

Amazing student projects

Birgitta — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:38 +0000

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 RHYME from 2010 to 2012 and the design challenges we have in this field. It stared with a 2 week course in E-textile in 2010 to a 3 week course in E-textile and Musical Interaction in 2011 to a 4 week course in Sensorial and Musical Interaction this year. The first week the students created “sensorial sensors“, the next week 3 new Musicking Tangible concepts and the last two the developed one concept to a final working model. After the introduction the 6 student groups gave their presentation of their process to their end result: Stump Drum, Dynamic Rock, Cove, Chilli Net, Ebbe, and Whispering Willow. More information about each project will come later. Link to some process pictures. And below are some pictures from the exhibition:

RHYME related student project won 2nd price

Birgitta — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:00:55 +0000

The UiO students that developed the application “Music Impro App” won 2nd price and 20.000 NOK in the Idea Price contest Inven2 for 2011. “The intention of the Music Impro App project was to develop a prototype application that may support the goals set by the RHYME project through the use of common smart phones running traditional software platforms.”
The thought behind the Idea Price (Ideprisen) is to challenge students from different research environments at UiO to present an innovative idea with economical potential.