Sketching Sonic Interaction Design

Talking Piano

Posted by admin under Converting Sound

Austrian Composer Peter Ablinger has analyzed a child speaking and transformed this into MIDI events on a mechanically-controlled piano, making the piano a kind of speech synthesizer. The auditory community is awash in discussion… : )

So.. is this speech?

Sketch-To-Photo

Posted by admin under Applications, Sketching

An application that creates a composite photo from users’ sketches, by retrieving compatible images from the web. The sketch has to have text labels attached to it for the algorithm to work well, though…
Created by researchers at Tsinghua University.

Sonic Sketching??!

Posted by michal under Sketching

Here’s the way we define the topic of the workshop, copied off the formal workshop website:

Sonic Interaction Design (SID) is the discipline that investigates the use of sound in interactive experiences. As technologies become more miniaturized and embedded, and their users more mobile, interactive sound becomes increasingly important. The experiences offered by sonic interactions need to be effectively and beautifully designed.

Sketching is a fundamental part of the design process. Designers sketch ideas for objects, spaces, interactions, experiences. Bill Buxton’s recent book, “Sketching User Experiences”, has laid out a palette of methods for sketching interactive experiences, that involve different forms of “visual storytelling”.

But how do we sketch when designing sonic interactions? This is the question at the core of this workshop. What is the equivalent for paper and pen when we come to design interactions that use sound as a main output?

A central topic in this workshop will be the use of the voice – vocal sketching – as one means of sketching sonic interactions. Can the voice for sound designers play a similar role as that played by the hand for the graphic designer? how can, and how do, people use their voice in the initial stages of designing sonic interactions?

Welcome

Posted by michal under About

Hello!
We are launching this blog today in preparation for the “Sonic Sketching” workshop to be held on November 16th, 2009 In HIT, Holon Israel, as part of the SID (Sonic Interaction Design) EU research initiative. Our purpose is to have a place that is about Sonic Sketching in the widest sense: anything related to sketching, sound, voice, and interaction – that we find interesting – will make its way here.
We hope this blog will be serious enough to help create some shared background for the workshop participants. We hope this blog will be informal enough to host some of the silly things we stumble upon in the web, and seem somehow related to the topic.
After the workshop we plan to post impressions, pictures, movies… so please stay tuned. Suggestions for content are invited, please send to sketchingSID [at] cost-sid [dot] org.
Happy reading,
Michal & Avi