The Polifonia Project €3,025,435 (A digital harmoniser for Musical Heritage Knowledge has been awarded by EU, to run 2021- 2024. The bid was initiated by Simon Holland, with Enrico Daga (KMI) as PI and Enrico Motta, Paul Mulholland and Simon Holland as Co-Is. There are ten collaborating partners from Italy, the Netherlands, France and Ireland, and ten stakeholders including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Stables Theatre in Wavendon. The project will design, implement and evaluate innovative multimodal haptic and gestural interaction techniques for music, with particular attention to inclusion for diverse disabilities, including profound deafness.
This project is highly synergistic with the existing Creative and Performing Arts Digital Inclusion grant from the Stables Theatre with Simon Holland (PI)and Paul Mulholland (Co-I) to enhance the approaches of the Stables and the Milton Keynes International Festival in working with D/deaf and disabled communities as participants, audience members and performers.
The new project also has strong connections with the existing HAPPIE project funded by Innovate UK to develop novel haptic interaction technologies for visually impaired designers, with Lisa Bowers, Simon Holland and Janet Van der Linden with Generic Robotics Ltd, Sliced Bread Animation and Numerion Software.
Theo Geogiou has paper published in JMIR (Impact Factor 3.4) on his work on Rhythmic Haptic Cueing Using Wearables as Physiotherapy for Huntington’s Disease. Georgiou, Theodoros; Islam, Riasat; Holland, Simon; Linden, Janet Van Der; Price, Blaine; Mulholland, Paul and Perry, Allan (2020). Rhythmic Haptic Cueing Using Wearable Devices as Physiotherapy for Huntington’s Disease: Case Study. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Journal. DOI: 10.2196/18589 (Impact Factor 3.4)
