Workshop: Using Assistive Technologies to Make Music by Dr Andy Pierson.

2. Introduction
Music software for schools, research and development
Delivery of a music curriculum in special schools
Use of technology to engage students with wide range of disabilities
Derbyshire Music Services – Wider Opportunities in Special Schools

3. Music and Technology
Music is rewarding
Sound can he heard and felt
Composing music
Performing
Wide range of skills

4. Music and Technology
Who is our target audience?
What are their cogitative levels?
What cause and effect can they engage with?

5. Music and Technology
A creative journey of discovery

6. Music - Composition
Writing a song

7. Performance
Voice
Instruments
Movement

8. Assistive Technologies
Using technology to do things we cannot do
New ways of interacting
Is touch what we want?

9. Types
Triple Axis Accelerometers
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
Proximity
Ultrasound
Temperature
Microphones
Pressure
Barometric
Altitude
Brain waves
Bio-sensors

10. Miniaturisation
Small footprint
Low power requirements

11. Wireless
Switches, sensors and wires are problematic
Ubiquitous
Bluetooth
WiFi
ZigBee

12. Research question?
Need to use technology to map the student’s
movements rather than the other way
round....
Examples..........

13. What do we need?
9 degrees of freedom?
Wireless technology
Research data

14. Measurements
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