GC-86 Spectrum Play - Team 2
Description
Spectrum Play is an organization that seeks to help elementary school students learn how to play music via color coding as a visual support tool. Existing digital tools are often overly complex or primarily focus on music note identification rather than teaching users how to read sheet music and play instruments. As a result, these applications do not sufficiently meet the needs of Spectrum Play’s target demographic of elementary school students working on music literacy skills. Spectrum Play created and tested a paper prototype for their “Spectrum Play” learning tool that allows students to progress through three levels of support as they improve their ability to read sheet music and play music. This project resulted in an intuitive web application using a React.js frontend and Express.js backend that is easy-to-use for children and allows app admins to easily upload new songs in the widely-supported MusicXML format (an XML format that supports sheet music rendering and can be exported natively from most music composition software). It offers 3 difficulty levels with varying degrees of music notes/color coding to correspond with physical color coding on instruments. The next phase will be to perform user acceptance testing for the target demographic of grades K-5 by partnering with real school classrooms.
GC-86 Spectrum Play - Team 2
https://www.kennesaw.edu/ccse/events/computing-showcase/sp24-cday-program.php
Spectrum Play is an organization that seeks to help elementary school students learn how to play music via color coding as a visual support tool. Existing digital tools are often overly complex or primarily focus on music note identification rather than teaching users how to read sheet music and play instruments. As a result, these applications do not sufficiently meet the needs of Spectrum Play’s target demographic of elementary school students working on music literacy skills. Spectrum Play created and tested a paper prototype for their “Spectrum Play” learning tool that allows students to progress through three levels of support as they improve their ability to read sheet music and play music. This project resulted in an intuitive web application using a React.js frontend and Express.js backend that is easy-to-use for children and allows app admins to easily upload new songs in the widely-supported MusicXML format (an XML format that supports sheet music rendering and can be exported natively from most music composition software). It offers 3 difficulty levels with varying degrees of music notes/color coding to correspond with physical color coding on instruments. The next phase will be to perform user acceptance testing for the target demographic of grades K-5 by partnering with real school classrooms.