The idea is pretty simple to grasp, we hope to develop a program that helps the user learn a musical instrument.
We got this idea after playing on a computer game called "Rock Band". Most readers would of heard of this, if you haven't there are a couple links below to some youtube video's of footage from the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd3E8zgqJM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gt_z72hkH0
As you can see these games rely heavily on the user using a fake version of a guitar/drums.
Our initial idea will be to use the drums hardware to develop a visual aid to teach the user how to play the drums properly.
At the moment these games only tell the user which drum to hit, but it doesn't tell you what sound it will make or anything useful like that. Not very helpful if your trying to learn the drums.
We would develop a visual system that would tell the user which drum to hit, but if they didnt hit it the sound wouldnt play. It sounds quite obvious really and it really is.
This is the version of controller that is currently being used for these games however we feel that this does not offer the user a full feel as to what drums feel like. So we are going to look into changing the design to suit it better.
We are also starting to look at other instruments we could use, some of the early ideas are quite obvious like guitars or a keyboard. But we have also thought of some of the non-traditional instruments like the flute.
Hopefully this idea is alright and then we can start doing some proper research into it.
