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Designing with sound : fundamentals for products and services
Sound can profoundly impact how people experience the world. Well-designed sounds can be exceptionally effective in conveying subtle distinctions, emotion, urgency, and information without adding visual clutter. Just as visual designers have a set of benchmarks and a design language to guide their work, this book provides a toolkit for the auditory experience, improving collaboration for a wide variety of stakeholders, from product developers to composers, user experience designers to architects. This practical guide explains why sound design is critical to the success of products, environments, and experiences. You'll learn a complete process for designing prototyping, and testing sound. From back cover.
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Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics
This paper investigates the sound design of robots in films and their potential influence on the field of social robotics. Cinematic robot portrayals have inspired researchers and practitioners in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). While the non-verbal sounds of iconic film robots like R2-D2 and Wall-E have been explored, this study takes a more comprehensive approach. We explore a broader selection of 15 films featuring humanoid robots across decades through a semiotic analysis of their non-verbal communication sounds, including those related to movements and internal mechanisms . Informed by Bateman and Schmidt’s multimodal film analysis framework, which draws on Saussure’s organization of signs through paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, our analysis interprets the paradigmatic axis as an examination of the sound and the syntagmatic axis as an exploration of the events surrounding the sound. The findings uncover two primary film robot sound materials: mechanical and synthetic. Furthermore, the analysis revealed several narrative themes, categorized into two groups based on the syntagmatic focus: sounds associated with the robots’ visual appearances and sounds linked to the broader elements within the scene. The discussion section explores the implications of these findings for social robotics, including the importance of sound materials, the role of movement sounds in communication and emotional expression, and the significance of narrative and context in human-robot interaction. The paper also acknowledges the challenges in translating film sound design into practical applications in social robotics. This study provides valuable insights for HRI researchers, practitioners, and sound designers seeking to enhance non-verbal auditory expressions in social robots.
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PepperOSC: enabling interactive sonification of a robot’s expressive movement
This paper presents the design and development of PepperOSC, an interface that connects Pepper and NAO robots with sound production tools to enable the development of interactive sonification in human-robot interaction (HRI). The interface uses Open Sound Control (OSC) messages to stream kinematic data from robots to various sound design and music production tools. The goals of PepperOSC are twofold: (i) to provide a tool for HRI researchers in developing multimodal user interfaces through sonification, and (ii) to lower the barrier for sound designers to contribute to HRI. To demonstrate the potential use of PepperOSC, this paper also presents two applications we have conducted: (i) a course project by two master’s students who created a robot sound model in Pure Data, and (ii) a museum installation of Pepper robot, employing sound models developed by a sound designer and a composer/researcher in music technology using MaxMSP and SuperCollider respectively. Furthermore, we discuss the potential use cases of PepperOSC in social robotics and artistic contexts. These applications demonstrate the versatility of PepperOSC and its ability to explore diverse aesthetic strategies for robot movement sonification, offering a promising approach to enhance the effectiveness and appeal of human-robot interactions.
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Hi-Fi : the history of high-end audio design
At a time when sales of vinyl records have hit a 25-year high, and analog technologies are providing the kind of extraordinary audio experiences that our increasingly digital world has started to remove, 'Hi-Fi' is essential reading. This unique book explores just how, when, and why the world fell in love with the look, feel, and sound of top-of-the-line audio equipment. Hi-Fi traces this fascinating evolution from the 1950s to today (and tomorrow), taking readers right up to the current renaissance of all things analog and the emergence of cutting-edge designs for die-hard audiophiles.
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Effect of Emotionalizing Sounds on the Estimation and Evaluation of Displayed Safety Distances
Musicological and traffic psychology research shows that emotions can be changed by certain tone combinations or sound characteristics and that emotions, in turn, influence our driving behavior. Nevertheless, there are no studies on how a dynamic active sound design could influence driving behavior via changing the emotional state of drivers in certain driving situations. Based on a previous study, emotionalizing sounds, characterized by their capacity to evoke specific emotional responses in individuals, were created and used to investigate their effect on the perception of safety distances in an online study. To test this, participants made statements on the safety distance shown in videos of cars following scenarios combined with emotionalizing sounds. The results show a significant difference in the estimated safety distance for videos combined with sounds invoking positive emotions like light-heartedness vs. sounds invoking negative emotions like feeling threatened. The odds of the safety distance being evaluated as too small compared with appropriate were two to three times higher for some threatening sounds vs. the positive sounds. The results further suggest that threatening sounds influenced participants’ wishes to increase the depicted safety distances. The results show that emotionalizing sounds had effects on the participants, though not all were statistically significant.
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Comfortable Sound Design Based on Auditory Masking with Chord Progression and Melody Generation Corresponding to the Peak Frequencies of Dental Treatment Noises
Noise reduction methods have been proposed for various loud noises. However, in a quiet indoor environment, even small noises often cause discomfort. One of the small noises that causes discomfort is noise with resonant frequencies. Since resonant frequencies are often high frequencies, it is difficult to apply conventional active noise control methods to them. To solve this problem, we focused on auditory masking, a phenomenon in which synthesized sounds increase the audible threshold. We have performed several studies on reducing discomfort based on auditory masking. However, it was difficult for comfortable sound design to be achieved using the previously proposed methods, even though they were able to reduce feelings of discomfort. Here, we focus on a pleasant sound: music. Comfortable sound design is made possible by introducing music theory into the design of masker signals. In this paper, we therefore propose comfortable sound design based on auditory masking with chord progression and melody generation to match the peak frequencies of dental treatment noises.
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The Effect of an Emotionalizing Sound Design on the Driver’s Choice of Headway in a Driving Simulator
This study investigates the impact of emotionalizing sound design on driving behaviour, focusing on the effect of an acoustic stimulus that varies from positive to negative/threatening based on the vehicle’s time headway (THW). Our primary goal was to explore how this sound influences driving durations within specific THW ranges and the mean THW itself. The experiment utilized a control group and a within-participant setting across simulated driving scenarios. The statistical analysis showed mixed results. While participants in the control group setup did not demonstrate significant reductions in the durations of driving in lower THW ranges, a modest but significant increase in mean THW was observed when the emotionalizing sound was active. However, within-participant comparisons showed both a significant decrease in the duration of driving at lower THWs and an increase in mean THW when the negative stimulus was active, suggesting the stimulus’ effectiveness in promoting safer driving habits. These findings highlight the potential of emotionalizing sound design to influence driver behaviour towards maintaining safer distances, although the impact appears to diminish at higher THW ranges. Future research should further investigate the characteristics of sounds that effectively modify driving behaviour, aiming for broader applications in traffic safety.
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