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Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a Human-Centred Sonic Interaction Design approach

Donato, Balandino Di; Dewey, Christopher; Michailidis, Tychonas

Authors

Christopher Dewey

Tychonas Michailidis



Abstract

In this paper, we explore human-centered interaction design aspects that determine the realisation and appreciation of musical works (installations, composition and performance), interfaces for sound design and musical expression, augmented instruments, sonic aspects of virtual environments and interactive audiovisual performances. In this first work, with the human at the centre of the design, we started sketching modes of interaction with sound that could result direct, engaging, natural and embodied in a collaborative, interactive, inclusive and diverse music environment. We define this as Human-Sound Interaction (HSI). To facilitate the exploration of HSIs, we prototyped SoundSculpt, a cross-modal audio, holographic projection and mid-air haptic feedback system. During an informal half-day workshop, we observed that HSIs through SoundSculpt have the potential to foster new ways of interaction with sound and to make them accessible to diverse musicians, sound artists and audience.

Citation

Donato, B. D., Dewey, C., & Michailidis, T. (2020, July). Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a Human-Centred Sonic Interaction Design approach. Presented at MOCO '20: 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, Jersey City, NJ, USA [Online]

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name MOCO '20: 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing
Start Date Jul 15, 2020
End Date Jul 17, 2020
Acceptance Date May 22, 2020
Online Publication Date Jul 15, 2020
Publication Date Jul 15, 2020
Deposit Date Aug 9, 2021
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Book Title MOCO '20: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing
ISBN 978-1-4503-7505-4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3401956.3404233
Keywords Sonic Interaction Design, Interactive Machine Learning, Gestural Interaction
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2791903
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3401956.3404233