VR/AR in Music Education Symposium - 2024

The “VR/AR in Music Education Symposium”, organized by the Music Technology & Digital Musicology Lab at Osnabrück University, focuses on the transformative potential of XR technologies in (music) education. The event brings together experts from academia, industry and the education sector to explore the future of these technologies in (music) education and beyond.

Timetable

Saturday, 28.9.2024

13:00 – 13:30	Welcome / Lunch	Lobby / Room 320
13:30 – 16:00	Talks Raphael Zender (Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen): Learning together in virtual reality: Systematic insights into multi-user VR learning applications Tobias Rotsch, Philipp Ahner, Jochen Feitsch (University for Music Trossingen, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf): Teaching-learning designs for VR rhythm games Luca Turchet (University of Trento): Opportunities and Challenges for the Musical Metaverse	Room 328
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break	Room 320
16:30 – 18:00	Talks Pieter-Jan Maes (Ghent University): Embodied music interaction in extended reality (XR) Ludwig Zeller (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Basel): OpenSoundLab. A multi-user enabled, mixed reality sound lab for education and creation in the arts	Room 328
From 19:00	Dinner (separate registration/invitation required)	Weinkrüger

Sunday, 29.9.2024

8:30 – 9:00	Welcome & Coffee
9:00 – 11:15	Talks and Demos Maurício do V. M. da Costa (University Osnabrück): Personalized HRTFs for Virtual Environments Eduardo Fouilloux (PatchXR, Copenhagen/Zürich): Interactive PatchWorld Live-Demo Rachel Wittschier, Stephani Howahl (German Sport University Cologne): VR-MOVE - research on physical presence and aesthetic experience of music in virtual reality	Room 328
11:15 – 11:45	Coffee Break	Room 320
11:45 – 12:30	Round Table Transformative potential of XR technologies in (music-related) education and training	Room 328
12:30 – 13:00	Symposium Closing / Lunch	Room 328/ Room 320