Peripheral Awareness
— upstairs?
2011, 2012 by Till Bovermann, Christian Leichsenring, René Tünnermann
Noise diffuses through walls. Listening to them can offer long-term insights about the lifestyle of upstairs neighbours. We connected two remote spaces by introducing an artificial bi-directional auditory cue between them. It offers a group that is distributed between two non-colocated areas a peripheral connection and makes them aware of activities on the other side. The system is sound-based, operating on an almost subliminal level and can therefore be used parallel to other activities.
Publications Link to heading
- R. Tünnermann, C. Leichsenring, T. Bovermann, and T. Hermann. Upstairs: A calm auditory communication and presence system. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display, 2015.
- T. Bovermann, R. Tünnermann, C. Leichsenring, and T. Hermann. Upstairs: Supporting Peripheral Awareness Between Non-Colocated Spaces. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012.
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- Affiliation:
- Aalto MediaLab, Ambient Intelligence Group, CITEC, Bielefeld