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The Echoing River: A Drs 2022 Lab, John Fass, Tyler Fox, Alastair Steele
The Echoing River: A Drs 2022 Lab, John Fass, Tyler Fox, Alastair Steele
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This DRS lab was a ten-day project carried out at Espacio Open on Zor- roztaurre in central Bilbao in June 2022. The Echoing River sought to address the theme of Creative Industries and Public Space through sonic placemaking. With this paper, which reports on the Lab outputs, we hope to demonstrate new ways of activating abandoned and overlooked public spaces in creative ways. The lab exemplifies a way for Bilbao to involve people in experimental, hands-on creative work that reveals the value of an enriched, shared public sphere. Interdisciplinary international collabora- tion is fundamental to our approach. The Echoing River …
Sound And Design, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan
Sound And Design, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The chairs' editorial for the theme track 'Sound and Design'
A Designerly Approach To The Sonification Of Electric Vehicles, Sara Lenzi, Juan Sádaba, Paolo Ciuccarelli
A Designerly Approach To The Sonification Of Electric Vehicles, Sara Lenzi, Juan Sádaba, Paolo Ciuccarelli
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In recent years, efforts to frame sound-related areas of research such as sonification, sonic interaction design and product sound design in terms of design methodologies became more common. Sound designers seem to be willing to structure a field traditionally characterised by tacit knowledge in terms of explicit design processes, tools and methods, to increase the reach and impact of the field. In this paper, we describe the first two stages of a commercial sonification project for the design of sounds for Electric Vehicles. The project was developed applying a design methodology that integrates a specific tool (the sonification canvas), which …
Functional And Sensible: Patient Monitoring Alarm Tones Designed With Those Who Hear Them, Avery Sen, Yoko Sen, Matt Barile, Sage Palmedo, Andreas Walden, Vitor Vicente Antunes
Functional And Sensible: Patient Monitoring Alarm Tones Designed With Those Who Hear Them, Avery Sen, Yoko Sen, Matt Barile, Sage Palmedo, Andreas Walden, Vitor Vicente Antunes
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This is a case study in participatory design of alarm tones for the Philips IntelliVue patient monitoring system. Through interviews and workshops, we asked clinicians and other stakeholders what mattered to them as we designed new tones. We distilled responses into criteria with which to evaluate new tone options that we created by adjusting the tones’ pitch, timbre, and other parameters. In surveys, participants compared these options using the criteria distilled from interviews. The results were: 1) new tones that stakeholders judged to be improvements over the originals, and 2) criteria for evaluating future tones, based on “functionality” (i.e., their …
Listening Tests For Sound Design: Faster Optimization Through Lower-Dimensional Parameter Spaces, Tom Barker, Joana Vieira, Frederico Pereira, Rui Marques, Guilherme Campos
Listening Tests For Sound Design: Faster Optimization Through Lower-Dimensional Parameter Spaces, Tom Barker, Joana Vieira, Frederico Pereira, Rui Marques, Guilherme Campos
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Listening tests are often an essential part of sound design but can be resource intensive to carry out. Where there are many degrees of freedom in the sound design parameters, the ‘curse of dimensionality’, means that the number of trials required to reliably understand the impact of a particular design variable increases exponentially with increasing number of parameters. When there is a particular design goal in mind (e.g. maximum audibility, pleasantness, etc.) this can be somewhat mitigated by using efficient optimisation techniques with online sound generation during listening tests -- whereby a black box optimiser iteratively moves the parameters towards …
Investigating The Sound Design Process: Two Case Studies From Radio And Film Production, Rod Selfridge, Sandra Pauletto
Investigating The Sound Design Process: Two Case Studies From Radio And Film Production, Rod Selfridge, Sandra Pauletto
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper presents two case studies in which the sound design processes of two professional sound designers, from radio and film, are examined. Through a study procedure that uses techniques such as interviews, observations and a novel set of design briefs, the sound designers' unique approaches and primary concerns are revealed. Results from these studies aim to inform and consolidate the link between professional sound designers´ practices in media production and the field of sonic interaction design.