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  • A glove with wires and chips on it. In the background is a laptop with a music program open.
  • Various actions of the gloves, such as rotating your index finger, which are connected to musical effects.
  • The glove up close. Each finger has a flex sensor, and there is a motion sensor in the middle.

Gloves

2020

During this project, Marlène Zwetsloot and I developed prototype gloves that could be used as an instrument. With AI, custom gestures could be trained that could then be connected to any music program.

Related projects

  1. I move my hands, causing colored spheres to appear where my hands are.A circle with different colors blending into each other: pink, blue, and green

    MotionSynth

    Make music with your hands! MotionSynth is an interactive experiment where you make music by moving your hands. Try it out with your webcam!

  2. Screenshots of the app showing which note is heard and how in-tune it is. There is a graph with the history of the notes and a piano to produce sounds.

    Tonest

    Tonest helps you practice singing in tune or tuning your instrument. Tonest is made in Flutter and can be downloaded on Google Play. The app comes with a history graph and built-in piano (with all octaves).

  3. Music notes

    MuseBlocks

    Everyone can make music with the blocks in MuseBlocks. Made as a school project but never published. Contact me to learn more!

  4. People walk a podwalk in Marken towards a bridge. There are many green houses with orange roofs.A location marker with headphones.

    "Het water komt" prototype

    For the upcoming series "Het water komt," the innovation team of NTR wanted to investigate whether a podwalk in combination with AR would be a good match. To validate this, I developed a prototype in two weeks. With this prototype, a podwalk could be walked in Marken, and there were AR points where a 3D model was shown on location. By testing this prototype with the target audience, we could quickly gain insights into the potential of this combination.

  5. A child takes a photo of a worm and the photo is scanned.

    SoortSafari prototype

    Het Klokhuis sought an engaging way to teach children about nature around them. The concept of SoortSafari emerged from my earlier research at NTR and drew inspiration from Het Klokhuis' Dierenzoeker, which allowed users to identify animals they had discovered. With SoortSafari, the approach is reversed: the app provides users with assignments that send them into nature. The prototype featured a calendar and a quartet-style overview of plant and animal species. To complete assignments, users take photos, and AI technology determines if the correct species has been identified. This allows children to build their own collections and learn about nature in a playful, hands-on way. The prototype was met with great enthusiasm. Children engaged with it for more than 45 minutes and even climbed on top of each other to capture better photos of a pigeon perched in a tree. Based on these observations and insights, we began developing a production-ready version to expand on this promising concept.

  6. A screenshot of the AI Machine where you can train an AI that recognizes images. This AI is trained with hand gestures.

    Klokhuis AI Studio prototype

    AI is something that is increasingly common and has more and more influence on our daily lives, but most people still do not fully understand what it is. For my graduation project, I developed this AI Studio where children learn about AI and train their own AI. I wanted to explore how we could give the next generation more control over the subject of artificial intelligence through playful learning. To that end, I investigated an interactive dialogue as a medium, in which the various characters of Het Klokhuis guide you through the theory. With this research, I graduated with two 9.3s and a 9.4. The average grade of my bachelor's courses is an 8.7.