Title
Andantino: Teaching Children Piano With Projected Animated Characters
Abstract
This paper explores how multi-modal body-syntonic interactive systems may be used to teach children to play the piano beyond the typical focus on reading musical scores and "surface correctness". Our work draws from Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a method of music pedagogy aimed at instilling an understanding of music rooted in the body. We present a Dalcrozian process of piano learning as a five-step iterative cycle of: listen, internalize, extend, analyze, and improvise. As a case study of how digital technologies may support this process, we present Andantino, a set of extensions of Andante, which projects musical lines as miniature light silhouettes that appear to walk on the keyboard of a player piano. We discuss features of Andantino based on each stage, or step, of the iterative framework and discuss directions for future research, based on two preliminary studies with children between the ages of 7 and 13.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2930674.2930689
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN (IDC2016)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Music, Music Learning, Piano, Piano Learning, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Progressive Education, Embodiment
Piano pedagogy,Music learning,Musical,Computer science,Correctness,Progressive education,Human–computer interaction,Piano,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao Xiao1254.29
Pablo Puentes220.40
E Ackermann3569.60
Hiroshi Ishii447231.91