Software Strikes a Chord for Disabled Students: From eSchool News

Demo Video by Zane Van Dusen

University project enables physically challenged students to create music using technology

A program developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) allows students with severe physical disabilities to create music just by moving their heads. A digital video camera tracks the students’ movements on a computer screen and translates them into piano scales or drum beats. The program’s developers hope it will open a whole new world of creativity for physically challenged individuals.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

“Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged” project

Video demonstration of the adaptive-use music project

Source: eSchool News