A Digital Platform for Sharing
Collective Human Hearing
(pp232-251)
Risa Kimura and Tatsuo Nakajima
doi:
https://doi.org/10.26421/JDI3.2-3
Abstracts:
People are hearing various natural and artificial sounds, but it is
hard to imagine how hearing the sounds from people collectively can
be effectively used in our everyday lives if those sounds become
sharable. 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. Investigating the
feasibility of sharing human hearing offers promising opportunities
with which to expand the current scope of the sharing economy. In
this study, we have developed a digital platform named
CollectiveEars to share collective human hearing and explore the
opportunities and pitfalls of sharing human physical senses on a
digital platform. The first contribution of the study is to present
an overview of CollectiveEars. The second contribution is that we
reveal opportunities and pitfalls of CollectiveEars by extracting
insights from two experiments. The third contribution is to show
three examples to extend CollectiveEars.
Key words:
Collective Human Hearing, Head Gesture, Sharing Economy, 3D Sound