Critical Reflection on Interactivity as Expression

        The video I searched and chose is an interactive new media art for movement rehabilitation called ELEMENTS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svXT16txEbg

ELEMENTS is a 42-inch tabletop TV on which patients who suffers and recovering Traumatic Brain Injury can paint, play games and mix sounds by gesturing with brightly coloured, soft plastic shapes. 

The creative and playful user interaction with different software applications is provided for the patients. ELEMENTS is create by Jonathan Duckworth, a new media artist as well as a psychologist and his colleague, Nick Mumford who was the founder of this system.They carried a lots of studies alongside with Peter Wilson and his researches towards patients who suffer brain injuries, the system was successfully created during May 2010. Mr Duckworth also wrote a thesis about this system but it is not officially published.
http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/eserv/rmit:10224/Duckworth.pdf 

While playing this interactive media system, patients can refine their movements using sounds and animations to give feedback during games. Using the colourful plastic shapes to mix sounds,create musics and interesting animations.