From small spaces to fully immersive environments

A sensory room can be a corner in a bedroom at home that has a few basic elements that allow us to begin therapy (such as a vibroacoustic pouf, a bubble tube or fiber optic strands), or a fully customizable interactive space with an integrated control system. SHX multisensory rooms allow both users and professionals to use a single item to take control of the room, the sensory elements in it, and the effects they produce. Control systems include pressing buttons and switches, throwing a die in the air, stepping on a mat, using a remote control or even voice commands and eye gaze.

SHX rooms can respond to your voice by doing what you ask them to do! Read more.

Therefore, the cost of a sensory room will vary according to the specific features and elements included in it; prices can range from 3,000 euros to 30,000 euros for a highly sophisticated room.

What do I need to take into account when designing a sensory room?

In order to create a safe and effective sensory space, it is vital that we assess every user’s specific needs and ensure they are fully addressed in our design. We need to ask ourselves what our users need and what benefits and objectives we want to achieve. When we have defined our goals, we can begin to create the ideal design for our custom-made project, even if the room itself is going to be assembled in stages.
As professionals in this field, we need to bear in mind that the size of our room is not as important as having access to a space that allows us to engage our users’ different sensory pathways and offer them meaningful and attractive stimuli. We can continue to add different features to our room gradually in order to create more opportunities for therapeutical uses, enjoyment and boosting our users’ well-being.

SHX multisensory rooms

BJ Live! has installed over 400 sensory rooms both in Spain and all over the world. Every room has been custom-made and designed to meet specific requirements: the type of user, intervention strategies, therapy objectives and future goals or applications. From small spaces for stimulus control that grow gradually over time to fully immersive environments, the options for personalizing these spaces are infinite thanks to SHX technology.

Sensory room with a curved screen

The SHX technology created by BJ Live! makes it possible to create highly customizable interactive sensory rooms. It allows us to personalize the content we project in the room, the way in which different sensory elements are activated and to create a limitless amount of unique content to encourage reminiscing and memory work, increase vocabulary or explore subjects of interest, etc.

Whether it is large or small, SHX technology allows us to control the entire room using a single controller by integrating all the sensory elements so that they can been activated simultaneously with a single switch. This transforms a space with sensory equipment into a fully immersive sensory room. Examples of controllers include a die to throw, a single button to press or, in fact, any real object we wish to use to control the room, thanks to the SHX Proximity. These allow us to choose and create a different world in which users find themselves instantly immersed.

Sensory rooms allow professionals to use different approaches in therapy and offer users numerous benefits, including stimulating cognitive development and self-awareness, providing visual and sensory stimulation, learning about specific subjects and themes, relaxation, games, improving social skills or promoting their well-being, for example. Whether you are in a bedroom at home, in a small corner or a large room, you are able to immerse yourself in and take control of an exciting new world that speaks and dances around you.

We will design your room free of charge

Many care centers require a project with a custom design and full quote in order to seek funding or financing for their sensory room. At BJ Live!, we want to support and help you through this process by designing a room that adapts to your specific needs – completely free of charge – so that you can visualize what the finished room would be like and the benefits it would provide to your users.

📧 Contact us and our expert therapists will provide you with a free consultation: info@bjliveat.com

Would you like to see a sensory room?

If you would like to visit our sensory showroom, come to the BJ Live! headquarters in Barcelona, where you can discover and explore our Sensory Lab, which is free of charge and open to the public. Make your appointment here and we’ll see you soon!

Would you like us to plan your ideal sensory room?

You imagine and we create! Ask us for a free design project for a sensory room that adapts to your needs, available space and therapeutic goals. Send us your contact data and one of our specialists will contact you to design a complimentary design project for you.

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It is free to download, and once you have it installed on your Android smartphone or tablet (from Google Play) you can start controlling all the Luminea lighting elements of your room, such as the bubble tube, the fiber optics, a  ball pool, etc. You can control them individually (by changing the device type in the menu) or in groups for a more immersive effect.

What can I do with the Luminea App?

The Luminea App allows you to control the Luminea lightning devices from your smartphone or tablet by changing the colour of the devices when touching on a photo. In this way, the colours of the light changes according to the subject matter. Imagine, for example, that you tap on the yellow part of a rainbow image and the lights in your room turn yellow. Or, the bubble tube turns green when you tap on a photo of a kiwi fruit or all the lighting elements in the room turn red when you tap on a clown’s nose. It’s so fun!

This App includes a variety of activities and games for you to play with lighting elements and lets your users or students take control of the room. In addition, you can customize everything, record colour sequences or add as many photos as you want (your own or internet ones) to make the sessions more personal.

What does it mean? Only with  Luminea App you can include countless customized activities in your sessions:

• Create choreographies with your favourite music and make all the elements ‘dance’ with you. You can play these choreographies whenever you want, as they are stored on your device.
• Upload your own photos and play with their colours. You can upload a photo of your last holiday or your favourite animal, and by tapping on a coloured point in the image, all the room will turn that specific colour. ¡It works automatically!
• It includes multiple games and activities, but you can also create your own unlimited activities.

We help to promote and encourage cause-effect relationships with these types of games, as well as memory, choice, interaction… In the case of group activities, it also helps to enhance communication, joint attention and social skills.

Start with a small corner!

With the Luminea App you can control all the Luminea light devices and become a master of light by taking control of your room like never before. If you want to get started in the sensory world, you can start with the Luminea Corner, which allows you to have a small interactive world made up of a bubble tube, and fiber optics and to add devices little by little, as they will always be compatible! 

The Luminea App is fun and therapeutic; it combines the elements of your multisensory room in a group setting and takes your users into an immersive world. In this video we show you all the Luminea elements and how easy it is to use the App. In addition, you can learn about other different ways to control your devices, according to the switch your users prefer (a 6 button, a giant die (Sensory Cube), a colored mat (Sensory Step), etc.)

How does Luminea App work?

The Luminea App is very intuitive and easy to use.

• All you need is an Android smartphone or tablet connected to the same WiFi network as your multisensory room (and all other Luminea devices). It works with one or add all of them at the same time!

Free to download on Google Play

Free Project Design

If you want to learn more about the benefits of Multisensory Environments or see how you could adapt it to your space, therapeutic goals, and users, you can send an email to hello@qinera.com.

L'entrada The App that awakens sensory channels: Luminea App ha aparegut primer a The Multisensory Blog.