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When people live in a home with others, they feel connected through passive, subtle signs of togetherness. Feeling co-present and connected over distance is a challenge, especially when living across different timezones. A key challenge when designing ...

Augmented Reality (AR) has developed to be a popular and exciting technology domain, gaining notable public interest from 2009 to the present day. AR applications have traditionally focused upon paradigms that are visually led. In this paper, we ...

Sound penetrates our outdoor spaces. Much of it we ignore amidst our fast passage from place to place, its qualities may be too quiet or fleeting to pay heed to above the bustle of our own thoughts, or we may experience the sounds as an annoyance. ...

Many people utilize audio equipment to escape from noises around them, leading to the desired isolation but also dangerously reduced awareness. Mediation of sounds through smarter headphones (e.g., hearables) could address this by providing non-uniform ...

The representation of sounds derived from everyday life can be beneficial for people with dementia by evoking memories and emotional responses. Despite this potential, integrating sound and sound-based interventions in care facilities has not received ...

This research consists of a reflection on the immersive sound installation "Backyard sounds". In order to achieve that objective, we consider both the artistic process involved in its creation, as well as the concepts and notions related to the ...

The original aim of this professional Doctor of Creative Industries (DCI) Research Project was to investigate music-making practice and Self as a practitioner in the process of creating and producing a DIY music artifact. Specifically: to investigate ...

The sounds we associate with particular places are tightly interwoven with our memories and sense of belonging. We describe a platform designed to assist in gathering the sounds a group of people associate with a place. A web-based evolutionary ...

There has been an increased interest in researching the beneficial effects of everyday sounds, other than music on people with dementia. However, to turn this potential into concrete design applications, a qualitative understanding of how people engage ...

The Aural Fabric is an interactive textile sonic map created to promote engagement in acoustic awareness towards the built environment. It fosters discussions on the aural environment of our cities by allowing users to experience binaural recordings ...

Smartphone apps that enable workers to listen to nature soundscapes are increasingly popular. There is, however, little evidence that these soundscapes have the effects that they claim to have. Previous research exploring the effect of listening to ...

This work focuses on the potential and impact that sound design can have or add on the interpretation of Archive Silent Films. An endeavor to discover linkage and possibilities between sound elements and emotions is attempted. Moreover sound design is ...

This paper investigates the subject of video game audio and how it can be categorized in order to deliver a message to a player in the most precise way. The proposed categorization, with a new take on the diegetic spaces, can be used a tool of ...

Sonic Atomic Interaction Radio (SonicAIR) is an ambient awareness technology probe designed to explore how connecting the soundscapes of friends or family members might reduce the isolation of seniors living independently. At its core, SonicAIR ...

A sonification is a rendering of audio in response to data, and is used in instances where visual representations of data are impossible, difficult, or unwanted. Designing sonifications often requires knowledge in multiple areas as well as an ...

In my dissertation I plan to explore the design of digital systems and how we can support users in the design process. Specifically, I focus on the design of sonifications, which are the representation of data using sound. Creating the algorithm that ...

In this paper we present the motivations, processes and results of two experimental music pieces. Two approaches as how the soundscape can catalyze direct inspiration and raw material to the creation of music. By describing the processes and results of ...

MaLaKuLa is an art installation to be discovered by people walking along the beach. It explores familiar nature elements in their natural context to build a poetical digital experience where the nature elements become interfaces for unexpected ...

Computational adaptive methods have already been used in Installation art. Among them, Generative artworks are those that value the artistic process, rather than its final product, which can now be of multimodal nature. Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) can ...

This paper argues for new approaches to the design of sound for contemporary interactive technologies. We begin by presenting what we feel to be the key challenges as yet unaddressed by conventional auditory display research. Subsequently, we propose a ...