The platform for open and practice-oriented research

product

The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning.

Designing meaningful audio for interactive applications such as video games or sonic user interfaces, presents designers with several challenges. One challenge is the fact that the perception of musical meaning involves cultural or learned aspects when it comes to tonality (Huron, 2006; Patel, 2008). For applied music and sound design, as cross-cultural phenomenon, this cultural specificity appears to be a significant disadvantage. Nevertheless, the history of interactive music in video games and sonic user interfaces illuminates many successful examples of meaningful musical icons in classic arcade games such as Pac-Man (1980), Donkey Kong (1981), Super Mario World (1990) and Pong (1972) and the user interface sounds of operating systems.

LINK

product

Curious Hands

In hun bijdrage laten Imka Buurke en Vanessa Bakhuizen-van ’t Hoogt zien hoe zintuigelijke ervaringen als voelen en horen tijdens het leren maken een essentiële rol spelen. Met voorbeelden uit hun onderzoeksprojecten maken ze duidelijk dat tijdens het maken handen en hoofd, doen en denken, hand in hand gaan

MULTIFILE

product

Reference points

We need mental and physical reference points. We need physical reference points such as signposts to show us which way to go, for example to the airport or the hospital, and we need reference points to show us where we are. Why? If you don’t know where you are, it’s quite a difficult job to find your way, thus landmarks and “lieux de memoire” play an important role in our lives.

LINK

product

Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting

This paper introduces the Feral Map, an open online map that brings together different creative practices questioning the dominant extractive, technocentric rendering and legitimising of particular algorithmic futures. Building on its initial development drawn upon open urban tree data, it invites people to explore and engage with their surroundings in creative, unfamiliar ways and share their experiences in the form of stories, using different kinds of media, sensory impressions, and personal expressions. These stories can be offered to existing places and local “creatures” (such as animals, ambiences, and glitches) or become new creatures on their own, emphasising mattering and entanglements: that change is the only constant in life. Through this, the map obscures the currently available–mostly quantitative–data about a place, and can help to raise questions about power, values, and structural inequalities that shape the place and its future. The Feral Map has been evolving to include such stories and creatures–or messy data–from different creative, practice-based research projects. Our paper presents the theoretical framing of the Feral Map and its design, how it has been transforming along with the involved projects, as well as our learnings from the process and possible future directions.

DOCUMENT

product

Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

Kunstzonemagazine-artikel nav interview van Than van Nispen betreffende muziektechnologie in de context van (muziek)basisonderwijs.Interview by Mikal van Leeuwen (HKU Expertisecentrum Creatieve Technologie)Published in Kunstzone 02 Maart 2020https://kunstzone.nl

DOCUMENT

Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

product

Becoming solar

In this article we examine the experiences of the first and second author who have changed themselves to become newly attuned to the sun, or who have “become solar”. Motivated by calls to approach solar design in novel, less technocratic ways, we reflect on their one-year journey to gain a new relationship with solar energy as an explicitly more-than-human design (MTHD) approach. We argue that their perception of solar energy progressively worked to decentre them as human actors in this new solar-energy arrangement, revealing other nonhuman actors at play, instigating situations of care and attention to those nonhumans and ultimately guiding them towards what it means to be solar. For solar design, we see this approach as creating a new lens for solar designers to draw from. For MTHD, we see this acting as a practical example for designers seeking to begin transforming themselves in their own practice by taking initial steps towards a MTHD approach.

DOCUMENT

product

Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

In the Netherlands, client and family participation in care for people with intellectual disabilities has been in vogue for a long time, and increasingly receives attention (KPMG and Vilans 2017). However, the perspective and experiential knowledge of service users and relatives is often still insuBiciently used for the co-creation of care. The professional perspective is often still dominant. In addition, professionals mainly focus on clients and less on relatives, even though relatives often play an important role in the client’s (quality of) life (Wiersma 2017). The project ‘Inclusive Collaboration in Disability Care’[1] (ICDC) focusses on enhancing equal communication between people with intellectual disabilities, their relatives, and professional caregivers, and hence contributes to redressing power imbalances in longterm care. It investigates the question: “How can the triangle of client, relative and professional caregiver together co-create better care and support?”.

DOCUMENT

Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

product

Twirre: Architecture for autonomous mini-UAVs using interchangeable commodity components

Twirre is a new architecture for mini-UAV platforms designed for autonomous flight in both GPS-enabled and GPS-deprived applications. The architecture consists of low-cost hardware and software components. High-level control software enables autonomous operation. Exchanging or upgrading hardware components is straightforward and the architecture is an excellent starting point for building low-cost autonomous mini-UAVs for a variety of applications. Experiments with an implementation of the architecture are in development, and preliminary results demonstrate accurate indoor navigation

MULTIFILE

Twirre: Architecture for autonomous mini-UAVs using interchangeable commodity components

product

The indoor sound environment and human task performance

A substantial amount of studies have addressed the inﬂuence of sound on human performance. In many of these, however, the large acoustic differences between experimental conditions prevent a direct translation of the results to realistic effects of room acoustic interventions. This review identiﬁes those studies which can be, in principle, translated to (changes in) room acoustic parameters and adds to the knowledge about the inﬂuence of the indoor sound environment on people. The review procedure is based on the effect room acoustics can have on the relevant quantiﬁers of the sound environment in a room or space. 272 papers containing empirical ﬁndings on the inﬂuence of sound or noise on some measure of human performance were found. Of these, only 12 papers complied with this review's criteria. A conceptual framework is suggested based on the analysis of results, positioning the role of room acoustics in the inﬂuence of sound on task performance. Furthermore, valuable insights are pre- sented that can be used in future studies on this topic. Whi le the inﬂuence of the sound environment on performance is clearly an issue in many situations, evidence regarding the effectiveness of strategies to control the sound environment by room acoustic design is lacking and should be a focus area in future studies.

DOCUMENT

Search results

Products 15

The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning.

Curious Hands

Reference points

Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting

Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

Becoming solar

Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

Twirre: Architecture for autonomous mini-UAVs using interchangeable commodity components

The indoor sound environment and human task performance

People 106

Annemiek van der Schaft

Beata Kviatek

Alinda Kokkinou

Angelique Ruiter

Anita Cremers

Anita van Essen

Annoëlle van Hooff

Antonia Hein

Austin D'Souza

Navigate to

Categories

Filters

Products 15

The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning.

Curious Hands

Reference points

Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting

Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

Becoming solar

Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

Twirre: Architecture for autonomous mini-UAVs using interchangeable commodity components

The indoor sound environment and human task performance

People 106

Annemiek van der Schaft

Beata Kviatek

Alinda Kokkinou

Angelique Ruiter

Anita Cremers

Anita van Essen

Annoëlle van Hooff

Antonia Hein

Austin D'Souza