The Musical Box Garden

Kieran Ferris, and Liam Bannon

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The Cardboard Box Garden (CBG) originated from a dissatisfaction with current computer technology as it is presented to children. This paper shall briefly review the process involved in the creation of this installation, from motivation through to design and subsequent implementation and user experience with the CBG. Through the augmentation of an everyday artefact, namely the standard cardboard box, a simple yet powerful interactive environment was created that has achieved its goal of stirring childrens imagination judging from the experience of our users.

Citation

Kieran Ferris, and Liam Bannon. 2002. The Musical Box Garden. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176410

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Ferris2002,
 abstract = {The Cardboard Box Garden (CBG) originated from a dissatisfaction with current computer technology as it is presented to children. This paper shall briefly review the process involved in the creation of this installation, from motivation through to design and subsequent implementation and user experience with the CBG. Through the augmentation of an everyday artefact, namely the standard cardboard box, a simple yet powerful interactive environment was created that has achieved its goal of stirring childrens imagination judging from the experience of our users. },
 address = {Dublin, Ireland},
 author = {Ferris, Kieran and Bannon, Liam},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {24-26 May, 2002},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176410},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Education, play, augmented reality, pervasive computing, disappearing computer, assembly, cardboard box},
 pages = {56--58},
 title = {The Musical Box Garden},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2002/nime2002_056.pdf},
 year = {2002}
}