Soundgarten – a tangible interface
The Soundgarten is a tangible interface to create sound environments aimed at childreen beween the ages of 3 and 7. It aims to explore three goals:
- to produce tools for early musical education and training of acoustic perception
- to encourage collaborative action
- to develop new approaches in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
The different sounds are represented by mushroom-shaped items and it is possible to manipulate the sound by plugging in flower and leaf-formed items into the mushrooms.