On Friday 12 Oct 2012 11:19:56 AM Harness, Kathleen wrote:
RE: [squeakland] Etoys for touch screens From: "Harness, Kathleen" kharness@illinois.edu To: "K. K. Subramaniam" kksubbu.ml@gmail.com, "squeakland@squeakland.org" squeakland@squeakland.org Subbu, What a great a idea! I know kids would love move shapes with their voice. Wait, I would love to move shapes with my voice!
Just after shooting of my earlier mail, I saw this talk on TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/john_maeda_how_art_technology_and_design_inform_cre...
Skip to around 7m10s for an interesting use of sound for interaction.
My daughter once created a project to pilot an airplane using voice and tried it successfully with some neighborhood kids. However, it was too much for a small home to bear :-(. Anyway she did have lots of fun programming it.
Regards .. Subbu