Sonic Interaction Design to Support Energy Efficiency Behavior in the Household
The energy hourglass
Turn the hourglass and listen to the energy sources used today, or during the last week or the last year. Turn it again and compare to another country.
Earth Electric
An interactive sound installation
Travel around the world and discover through sound which energy sources different countries use to produce electricity. Are there interesting surprises? How does your country sound? More about this prototype soon ...
Interview with Sandra Pauletto for the magazine SRF Perspektiv of the Swedish Visually Impaired Association Synskadades Riksförbund see pages 20-22 at the link below:
https://alltom.srf.nu/p/tidningen-perspektiv/2024-03-11/r/11/20-21/2145/1355797
Interview with Sandra Pauletto for the website VVS Forum
https://www.vvsforum.se/2024/06/darfor-maste-du-sjunga-i-den-har-duschen/
The Energy Stethoscope
This system can sonify the electricity drawn by different household appliances. We use machine learning to generate a continous fire sound which becomes more and more intense as more electricity is drawn.
A few video examples below (please use headphones!).
Project publications:
Pauletto, S. (2024) Sonification and Sustainability, Handbook of Sound Design, Routledge. See HERE
Pauletto, S., Delle Monache, S., Özcan Vieira, E., Misdariis, N. and Voegelin, S. (2024) Designing for sustainability with sound, Design Research Society Conference, Boston, USA. Download paper HERE
Delle Monache, S., Cera, A. and Pauletto, S. (2024) From data to dialogue: “Earth Electric”, a sonic journey through global energy landscapes, ACM Audio Mostly Conference - Explorations in Sonic Cultures (AM ’24), September 18–20, 2024, Milan, Italy. Download paper HERE
Pauletto, S. and Seznec, Y. (2024) Connecting sound to data: sonification workshop methods with expert and non-expert participants, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Download paper HERE
Seznec, Y., Pauletto, S., Bogdan, C., Eriksson, E. (2023) The Sound of the Future HomeWorkshop: Ideating Sonic Prototypes for Sustainable Energy Consumption, ACM Audio Mostly Conference, Edinburgh, UK. Download paper HERE
Pauletto, S., Barahona-Ríos, A., Madaghiele, V. and Seznec, Y. (2023) Sonifying energy consumption using SpecSinGAN, Sound and Music Computing Conference, Sweden. Download the paper HERE
Madaghiele, V. Demir, A. D. and Pauletto, S. (2023) Heat-sensitive sonic textiles: increasing awareness of the energy we save by wearing warm fabrics, Sound and Music Computing Conference, Sweden. Download the paper HERE
Madaghiele, V. and Pauletto, S. (2022) Experimenting techniques for sonic implicit interactions: a real time sonification of body-textile heat exchange with sound augmented fabrics, Conference on the Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED), Sweden Download the paper HERE
Madaghiele, V. and Pauletto, S. (2022) The Sonic Carpet: real-time feedback of energy consumption and emission data through sonic interaction design, International Conference on Auditory Displays, USA Download the paper HERE
Seznec, Y. and Pauletto, S. (2022) Towards a workshop methodology for involving non-experts in the sonic interaction design process: Connecting household sounds and energy consumption data, International Conference on Auditory Displays, USA Download the paper HERE
Seznec, Y. and Pauletto, S. (2022) The Singing Shower: A melody-sensitive interface for physical interaction and efficient energy consumption, Sound and Music Computing Conference, France. Download the paper HERE
Selfridge, R., Barone, C., and Pauletto, S. (2022) Sonifying an Office Gadget to Indicate Air Quality, Sound and Music Computing Conference, France. Download the paper HERE
Seznec, Y. (2022) Music Within Limits, ICT for Sustainability, ICT4S. Download the paper HERE
Designing sound for sustainability - Sandra Pauletto
Invited Seminar @ IRCAM, Paris, 7th June 2023
To watch seminar click HERE
SoniHED 2022 - 27-28 October 2022
The Sound for Energy Project hosted the second Conference on the Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED).
Check out the CONFERENCE WEBPAGE for the programme, guests and proceedings.
Workshop: Designing the Sound of Sustainability
The Workshop will take place during the9th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2023) during 5-9 June in Rennes, France. See: https://conf.researchr.org/home/ict4s-2023
See Call for Participation HERE
Workshop: Designing the Sound of Sustainability with Sonification Experts
The workshop will take place on June 29th, for more information see:
https://icad2023.icad.org/workshops/#ws2
Invited Talk
Sandra Pauletto will talk about the Sound for Energy project at the Sound Design(ed) Futures event in Paris on Friday 27th May 2022. Check out the programme and register for free HERE.
Singing Shower demo!
The Singing Shower is inspired by the concept of a “Navy shower” which is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of water and energy by turning off the flow of water while soaping.
In addition to providing an efficient way to control the water flow while hands and eyes are occupied in other tasks, this shower is great fun!
Workshop
What are the connections between our attitudes towards household sounds and our attitudes towards energy consumption and efficiency? Our first innovative workshop that took place in December 2021 looked into this. Read HERE a little more about it.
Sandra Pauletto was invited to deliver a seminar for Spår av Ljud event at Lund University. The talk highlights the links between historical sound design practices and the development of new digital sonic interactions in areas such as energy efficiency in the Sound for Energy project.
Sound for Energy is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency (Project No. 51645-1).
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