#indiv

Had a call with Geoff earlier this week which went really well – the project seems really promising in that it could very possibly be implemented, as the ER department will be going through renovations soon! Seems that Geoff is on board with our idea; the sentiment seems to be that the area of psych patients in pediatric ER is one that really has not been addressed much and could do with any kind of help as long as it’s justified. 

At the moment, what I’m working on & thinking about:

Doing more research

To back it up (i.e. similar models/competitors, certain kinds of music/light that has proven to be effective in calming aggressive behaviours down)

Into the specificities of it (i.e. colour theory)

Thinking about the specificities of the prototype

I would like to ‘prototype’ some music/ambient sounds for the different modes

Perhaps could do some user testing on what kinds of music/ambient noise are most effective as well

One way is to use a program that I have been learning called Max/MSP, and perhaps connect the sounds to visuals so that they correspond with each other

Alternatively, find some music on Youtube

Though this depends on the medium through which music will be played from