H. Shimizu, K. Morimoto, S. Kaneda, H. Haga, and K. Shintani (Japan)
Children's Education, Music, Marker Tracking, Baton, Ac celerometer
In kindergartens and nurseries, music is an especially im portant activity for improving children's self-expression abilities. However, for inexperienced teachers/nurses, it is very difficult to observe every child while playing the piano. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a chil dren's music education support system that uses sensor data, video images, and sound data. The proposed system focuses on the motion of a baton equipped with an LED and an accelerometer. A child shakes a baton accompanied by a piano. Marker tracking results and accelerometer out put are represented graphically: the horizontal and vertical axes are time and observed values, respectively. An exper iment at a kindergarten showed that inexperienced teachers recognize more detailed and rich information from data in a graphical format than observation with the naked eye.
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