music and games

Hi guys, I know that we are supposed to be looking for research papers and that there is a lot of stuff out there, but I just thought I'd include this link (below) based on our previous little discussion about music and the like. It's not particularly specific or close to what we need but it does provide a good look at a particular and popular TUI utilization.

http://land.percussa.com/

Also there are many bits of information that we can investigate from this site - http://tangible.media.mit.edu/press-new.php. I think it's a very good resource as it's an eye opener in terms of what the possibilities for applications using TUIs are. 
I did find this paper however which I think is interesting and accessible in its treatment of some of the issues which need to be considered and in interface design and tangible user interfaces and noticebly mentions  the characteristics of sharing, playfulness and creativity which are relevant to our ongoing work
http://shareitproject.org/uploads/25/workshop_shareable_interfaces_tanja_doering.pdf

cmt3321 -Novel Interaction Design: music and games

cmt3321 -Novel Interaction Design: music and games: "Hi guys, I know that we are supposed to be looking for research papers and that there is a lot of stuff out there, but I just thought I'd in..."

Gaming ideas for inspiration

I was just browisng through a few educational gaming websites for children and I found one of them quite intresting and helpful, in terms of generating ideas for how we would design our game. The website covers a number of gaming topics in which children get to interact with and learn whilst also having fun. The games are based on the following topics:

- Maths
- Language
- Science
- Geography & History
- Arts & Music

There are atleast 30 games or more in each subject area. In particular, I was looking at a geography game, where the users have to guess capitals of countries. The Interface for that game reminded me of something similar to what we were discussing in class, where we would use the shape of countries on the map... Anyway, chek it out:

http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/index.html