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From Foley to Function: A Pedagogical Approach to Sound Design for Novel Interactions (2018)

Daniel Hug
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Increasingly, devices of everyday use employ computing technology. Due to small or absent screens and their ubiquity in the environment, these interactive commodities might benefit from the consideration of sound in their design and use. However, the criteria for appropriate, enjoyable and useful sonic interactions and suitable pedagogical methods for educating future designers in this area still remain to be explored. We want to encourage design students to create “sounds for tomorrow” in an explorative way, inspired by the sound pioneers of “New Hollywood,” who employed techniques of the avant-garde to establish new sonic identities. We implemented a design process in a workshop setting, continuously scrutinizing sound design and interpretational strategies. The process evolved over three connected stages: Foley-based and electroacoustic Wizard-of-Oz mockups and functional prototypes. Real time sound making, performance of interactions, and critical reflection on the aforementioned are central to our approach. In this article, we elaborate on the method, discuss design cases, and present pedagogical insights.
typeresearch exposition
date15/12/2015
published27/06/2018
last modified27/06/2018
statuspublished
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/237166/237167
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.237166
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue06. Issue 6


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