Interactive learning environment and human communication

• Grant number: 08/04544-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2008
• End date: November 30, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Cláudia Regina Furquim de Andrade
• Grantee: Tainá Soares Ferreira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The interactive museums provide learning through dynamic and participatory manner. There are some interactive museums in the world dealing with Human Communication and Vocal Production topics, as the Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie - La Villette in Paris that have a interesting permanent exposition named "Communication - Sounds", that treats content of production and reception of sounds, synthetic speech, mechanisms of animal communication, relation between the spoken language of an adult and a child babbling exposed to the same language, parameters of articulation of vowels sounds, among other related subjects. From the analyses of this example and others, came the idea of creating an interactive exposition about health, using Telemedicine resources from the Medical School/USP and images from the "Virtual Man" project, exploring the aspects of Human Communication. The goal of this project is to establish a proposal of an Interactive Learning Environment and Human Communication to be implemented at Estação Ciência/USP that will use the volumes I and II of the "Virtual Man" of voice. (AU)