Posture-Aware Music Practice

Three questions to the project team

What was the particular challenge of the project from a UX point of view?
The main UX challenge was supporting body awareness during music practice when the teacher is no longer present. Learners often struggle to remember which posture adjustments improved their sound during lessons, and it can be difficult to perceive subtle body-sound relationships while playing alone.
This challenge is inherently multi-dimensional: posture, sound quality, and teacher guidance all influence the learning experience and need to be understood together. The solution therefore focuses on reconnecting these elements through a single interaction, allowing learners to access feedback in real time and recall embodied learning experiences beyond the classroom.

What was your personal highlight in the development process? Was there an aha!-moment, was there a low point?
My personal highlight was realizing that posture issues, sound issues, and teacher instructions could be treated as a single learning event rather than separate pieces of information. By connecting all three within one labeled entry, teacher feedback could be brought back into the practice environment.
A low point occurred when the problem was still unclear and the idea seemed difficult to implement. Defining the problem more precisely and identifying a suitable interactive machine learning approach eventually helped transform the concept into a working prototype.

Where do you see yourself and the project in the next five years?
Over the next five years, the goal is to further develop the project through collaboration with learners, teachers, and institutions, using their feedback to refine the experience and identify the most relevant application areas. Initial opportunities may include music conservatories, private music education, and musician health contexts.
Beyond music, the project could be explored in other domains where posture awareness supports learning, performance, or wellbeing. A future focus would be building a multidisciplinary team to further develop the concept, improve the user experience, and investigate how posture-aware guidance can create meaningful value across different contexts.