Pathway #9: Audible dimension
CategorySetting your eyes free
Visual elements dominate the mobile user experience. This creates a pressured, synchronous relationship between the user’s attention span and the device. MEX Pathway #9 asks how other senses, such as sound and touch, could be employed to create …
The sound of photos
Following up on the recent essay on ‘Sensation‘, MEX alumnus Ben King shared this article on ‘Picle‘, an iOS application which records a short sound clip to augment and enhance photo memories. Picles are replayed by combining the onscreen image w…
Sensation
Humans rely on many sensations to confirm their interactions with the physical world. Hitting a nail with a hammer produces visual, audible and tactile response. Food is experienced through sight, smell, taste, sound and touch. The dominant sen…
Tapping other senses for the visually impaired
The BBC has an article on Georgie, a suite of applications to improve smartphone usage for those with visual impairment.
Georgie from Granite 5 on Vimeo.
Developed by husband and wife Roger and Margaret Wilson-Hinds, Georgie is named after …
High fidelity gestural interface
Reuben Kettle Aiers, one of the Brunel designers participating at the next MEX, shared this video of Leap, a forthcoming gestural interface which raises input fidelity beyond today’s game consoles.
The ability to sense motion with higher fi…
Gestures in a mobile context
The amount of transposition required to convert users’ physical actions into digital form has ebbed and flowed over the years.
Command line interfaces were direct: pressing a single key produced the corresponding character on-screen.
The i…
Sound experiences outside the visual canvas
The brain has a remarkable ability to perceive the location of a sound source. If an object bangs on the floor behind you, your brain uses its understanding of acoustics to translate the sound waves into a clear image of where that incident occur…
Maps appropriate to context
The digital maps found on today’s mobile devices derive from cartographic techniques hundreds of years old. User context, however, has changed. The situations in which users find themselves accessing maps on a mobile device are very differen…