Sketching Sonic Interaction Design

New to Sonic Interaction Design?

Posted by michal under Experiments, Meet the people, SID

Shoogle is one of my personal favorites in this field. Created by fellow SID-ers John Williamson and Rod Murray-Smith, with Stephen Hughes, at the Dynamics and Interaction Group, Glasgow University, Shoogle “is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device”.
A great exploration of audio-tactile interaction. Take a look:

Interview with Itay Talgam

Posted by admin under Meet the people

Itay Talgam is an orchestra conductor who uses his experiences with orchestras to work with organizations on leadership and collaboration. In the SID workshop he will talking about collaboration using sound. In this, slightly off-topic interview, he talks about why he likes working with non-musicians. Take a look:

Inger Ekman’s thoughts on sonic sketching

Posted by admin under Meet the people, Sketching, Voice

Inger Ekman will be attending the workshop and co-hosting the vocal sketching session.
Here are some thoughts she posted on her blog, about the workshop and about sonic sketching:

“What does sonic sketching mean, then? Well, I suspect a part of this workshop will be precisely finding out that. As of now, there really is no established design methodology for working with sound, especially in the prototyping stage. Sound doesn’t have its storyboards, or paper prototypes.

What I use a lot, however, is the voice. There are really so many awesome things you can do with your voice, even without that much training. But with a little training, and a huge amount of self-confidence, the voice can become a very useful prototyping tool. Foreign languages, for example, are a great way to learn to make new sounds. How about these Xhosa sounds for a starter? And if you train a little (or a lot) more, you can do quite a lot just with your voice. Just listen to this lovely Pink Panther theme by Bobby McFerrin. Or how about a little polyharmonic singing – yeah, thats when you sing two tones at the same time. So how about using this cool device of ours for vocal prototyping?

Having worked with different experience prototyping methods in the past, I’ve always felt there is a special tug in people’s stomachs whenever they start prototyping something that sounds. The voice is just so personal! Working to overcome these comfort barriers, both by myself personally and together with other designers, research colleagues, and students, has been quite interesting! I guess being an extrovert really helps in a field like this.”

Cool. We look forward to seeing you here, Inger!