Feltham, F: ing the Sonic Blocks

This work gives an account of the , development and deployment of the Sonic Blocks, with a small group of children in a primary school. The work gained an understanding of the blocks unique capabilities to enable physical and embodied interaction for exploratory and expressive sound making purposes. The findings include a comparison to conventional music making software on a personal computer and insights into the ability of the Sonic Blocks to mediate a collaborative music making activity with children. This work also gives a rigorous account of the process used to create the Sonic Blocks, framed through a review of contemporary literature in the fields of tangible interaction, interaction , perceptual psychology and constructivist learning. This work will be useful for researchers and students of Human Computer Interaction, Interaction , Ubiquitous Computing, Tangible and Physical Interaction and Learning with Technologies.