I was selected as one of nine finalists for the Interaction Design Association's (IXDA) Interaction 18's Student Design Challenge in Lyon, France sponsored by Microsoft Design. The team I was assigned to comprised of Mélodie Jacob from the Pôle Supérieur de Design in France and Katarina Yee from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
The 72-hour inclusive design competition challenged us to come up with a concept to teach rhythm to a population with one of four disabilities: blindness, deafness, mobile dexterity impairment, or dyscalculia, a learning difference that makes it difficult to ascribe meaning to numbers. Our winning idea, keyHue, teaches students with dyscalculia how to read and play music, using projection mapping to display color on a piano keyboard, and corresponding colors on digital sheet music.
