{"id":246,"date":"2025-05-29T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:49:52","slug":"muze-multisensory-music-sharing-for-emotional-wellbeing-and-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/2025\/muze-multisensory-music-sharing-for-emotional-wellbeing-and-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"MUZE: Multisensory Music Sharing for Emotional Wellbeing and Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MUZE: Multisensory Music Sharing for Emotional Wellbeing and Connection \n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Shay Chlistovsky<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"project-summary\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>MUZE<\/em> is a <strong>multisensory music creation and sharing device<\/strong> designed to reduce loneliness and support emotional regulation in young adults. Developed during a period of heightened isolation due to COVID-19, this capstone project explores how <strong>sound, touch, and movement<\/strong> can be leveraged to create emotionally resonant experiences that foster <strong>social bonds<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The device enables users to generate expressive musical \u201cpackages\u201d through physical interaction, tilting, tapping, or squeezing, each action translating into musical and visual outputs. These packages can be layered, shared, and collaboratively expanded via the <strong>MUZE mobile app<\/strong>, offering users a playful yet meaningful way to express and connect without relying on words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grounded in research on <strong>intercorporeality<\/strong>, <strong>music psychology<\/strong>, and <strong>community informatics<\/strong>, the project demonstrated that music could serve as a low-barrier communication medium to convey complex emotional states, especially for individuals struggling to articulate their feelings. User testing confirmed that MUZE\u2019s tangible interaction model encourages self-awareness, facilitates interpersonal connection, and supports positive mental health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Multisensory Design, Music Interaction, Emotional Regulation, Social Connection, Tangible Interfaces, Gen Z, Loneliness, Mental Health&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Summary MUZE is a multisensory music creation and sharing device designed to reduce loneliness and support emotional regulation in young adults. Developed during a period of heightened isolation due to COVID-19, this capstone project explores how sound, touch, and movement can be leveraged to create emotionally resonant experiences that foster social bonds.&nbsp; The device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-capstone"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}