I was one of nine finalists selected by the Interaction Design Association and Microsoft Design to compete in Interaction 18's Student Design Challenge in Lyon, France. I was teamed up with Mélodie Jacob from the Pôle Supérieur de Design in France, and Kevin Ong from Malmö Universitet in Sweden. 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, Project 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.
