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This research explores combining soundscapes and narrative elements to create immersive VR campus tours. Student teams planned campus pathways and designed 360-degree panoramic tours based on soundscapes. The research found that plain campus environments ...

Audio technology rested at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though heart rate monitors, ventilators, and pulse oximeters are not traditionally thought of as tools for musical expression, their sounds hold a resonance that has not been fully explored, ...

Sound is a pivotal component in creating a sense of place and time in any given environment. Increasing attention to the adverse health effects of noise in society has led to a singular focus on reducing measurable sound levels by means of insulation and ...

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an effective, non-intrusive method for studying ecosystems, but obtaining meaningful ecological information from its large number of audio files is challenging. In this study, we take advantage of the expected ...

Playfulness and ambiguity are design intentions with a growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. This demo describes an interactive table prototype using bare-skin touch between two users to control a soundscape supported by light. It builds on ...

The problem of noise in hospitals is commonly tackled through noise abatement practices, which consider ’quietness’ as a quality indicator. However, the influence of positive or negative subjective reactions to these sounds are rarely examined. Recent ...

Biodiversity monitoring has taken a relevant role in conservation management plans, where several methodologies have been proposed to assess biological information of landscapes. Recently, soundscape studies have allowed biodiversity monitoring by ...

The intersection between sound and music computing and Virtual Reality (VR) has grown significantly over the past decades, amounting to an established area of research today. However, still scarce research has been conducted on the development of ...

The world population is aging and more and more people suffer from dementia, which makes remembering and orientation in time and space difficult. Moreover dementia has a strong negative effect on the quality of living of the people suffering from ...

Our everyday life is filled with a variety of serendipitous and beautiful sounds that are both natural and artificial. We consciously also unconsciously enjoy these sounds. The sounds are one of the most important factor in our daily life, thus it ...

‘Soundscapes’ are an increasingly active topic in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design. From mapping acoustic environments through sound recordings to designing compositions as interventions, soundscapes appear as a recurring theme ...

The sharing economy, which uses digital technologies to share a variety of physical resources in a peer-to-peer manner, has been attracting attention in recent years. There are already widespread services including delivery services using personal cars,...

Although overshadowed by visual information, sound plays a central role in how people perceive an environment. The effect of a landscape is enriched by its soundscape, that is, the stratification of all the acoustic sources that, often ...

We described here concepts and technical information concerning the installation Jardim das Cartas which brings together video, dance, poetry, voice, and soundscape to express a Presence Ecology. The visitors will be immersed in digital media rhizomes to ...

This paper analyses the artistic dimensions of fine art, focusing on film and performances, and the aspects of experience by the audience of this type of art. We analyze the contribution of sound, and consider a way to, either translate relevant ...

As a technology that allows sound to be heard only in specific areas in public spaces, the directional sound of parametric speakers has been attracting attention. The parametric speaker is also expected to have a wide range of uses, in settings ...

Listening to sound individually while in close proximity of other people is increasingly enabled by a range of technologies. One still in development is sound zone technology that aims to provide personal sound without headphones or other wearable ...

Spectrality describes the spatiotemporal relationships between landscape and memories where the past ‘haunt’ the present. We explore how spatialized soundscapes may evoke the spectral memories of physical landscape. To do this, we curated a site-...

This paper explores how auditory experiences evoke future scenarios and further foster future applications of emerging technologies in an IoT research center. Taking an experiential approach in design fiction research, we designed audio clips that mixed ...