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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.

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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.

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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

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Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

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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?”.

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Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

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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.

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The indoor sound environment and human task performance

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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

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

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Forest bathing as a mindful tourism practice.

In the troubled times in which we currently live, the tourism industry has called into question a need for more responsible social practices and more mindful utilisation of natural environments. The Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, has not only become a new wellness trend, but also a great potential for deeply immersive tourist experiences. While there is a wealth of studies examining the positive effects of forest bathing focussing principally on its medical benefits, this qualitative study extends these debates through documenting lived experiences of forest bathers. In so doing forest bathing suggests its latent potential to offer a profoundly mindful experience, and aims to situate this practice more prominently within the tourism discourse.

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Gas sensing performance at room temperature of nanogap interdigitated electrodes for detection of acetone at low concentration

From the article: "A facile approach for the fabrication of large-scale interdigitated nanogap electrodes (nanogap IDEs) with a controllable gap was demonstrated with conventional micro-fabrication technology to develop chemocapacitors for gas sensing applications. In this work, interdigitated nanogap electrodes (nanogap IDEs) with gaps from 50–250 nm have been designed and processed at full wafer-scale. These nanogap IDEs were then coated with poly(4-vinyl phenol) as a sensitive layer to form gas sensors for acetone detection at low concentrations. These acetone sensors showed excellent sensing performance with a dynamic range from 1000 ppm to 10 ppm of acetone at room temperature and the observed results are compared with conventional interdigitated microelectrodes according to our previous work. Sensitivity and reproducibility of devices are discussed in detail. Our approach of fabrication of nanogap IDEs together with a simple coating method to apply the sensing layer opens up possibilities to create various nanogap devices in a cost-effective manner for gas sensing applications"

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The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning.

Reference points

Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

The indoor sound environment and human task performance

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

Forest bathing as a mindful tourism practice.

Gas sensing performance at room temperature of nanogap interdigitated electrodes for detection of acetone at low concentration

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The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning.

Reference points

Spelen met Technologie [Kunstzone artikel 03-2020]

Redressing power imbalances in care for people with intellectual disabilities

The indoor sound environment and human task performance

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

Forest bathing as a mindful tourism practice.

Gas sensing performance at room temperature of nanogap interdigitated electrodes for detection of acetone at low concentration