Objective. The aim of this work is to introduce NOBE (No OBstacle to Emotion®), a multi-sensory platform aiming to allow everyone – especially people with disabilities – to enjoy the aesthetic experience of perceiving and interacting with an artistic composition by means of multi-sensory patterns.

Main content. A new technology called NOBE (No OBstacle to Emotion®) has been developed to overcome the limitation that persons with cognitive and sensory disabilities can encounter while visiting art exhibition contexts and, at the same time, to provide an inclusive alternative form of art.

Results. In order to investigate the user experience emerging during the interaction with visual art through the NOBE system, two open/closed-ended questionnaires and an eleven-items Likert scale were administered to people with and without disabilities. Findings show high satisfaction levels with no significatively difference for both groups.

Conclusion. Since it conveys the experience through a plurality of meanings related to the work of art, NOBE can be considered both an assistive technology for people with disabilities and a medium between person and works of art, by offering a hermeneutic and gestaltic experience in a synesthetic senses' contamination point of view of reality.