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CONTEXT
Sonic Interaction Design – BA Course
CONTRIBUTORS
Alec Nikolov
Alessia Wiss
David Wollschlegel
Sonia Tao
CONTRIBUTION
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The project „DASEIN“ tries to reduce the lack of feedback from your audience during online presentations.
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To do this the attention state of the listeners is getting tracked and translated into an ambient sound. The calculations are done by measuring four indicators; The face orientation / increasing nervous head movement / speaking, movement of mouth / the absence of the head
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All those factors are collected from each listener and influence the ambient sound in a unique way. The presenter recognises the different sound shapes and can therefore tell whether the audience is concentrated or not.
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In the process we created different base ambient sounds and tested if they distract the presenter. Furthermore the tones had to be distinctive enough to detect a change. During the user testings we learnt that it is remarkable how fast the presenter learns the association of different sounds with actions.
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