MOVES: Going beyond hardwired multisensory environments for children

Multisensory Environments (MSEs) enable different forms of interactions to enhance children's learning and play. While traditional MSEs are "built-in" to a specific space (e.g., a room or a part of a room), our movable solution, named MOVES, goes beyond these constraints by overcoming their "hardwired" nature and enabling children to play and learn through five different interaction modalities: feet, hand, card, wand, and voice. MOVES wooden structure (see Figure 1) hold several devices such as a PC, 2 projectors, a depth sensor, a LED strip, a RFID card reader, a tablet and a Wi-Fi access point to enable discrete immersivity, to offer children different ways to interact and teachers to be always in control of the experience. This paper focuses on presenting the MOVES technology, along with details about its rationale, design, and usage.