Ambient Sounds

1
Ambient Sounds

• Attracting Attention
• Influencing Behaviour

2
Ambient Sounds

• Subtle, integral part of Consciousness
• Smooth shifting between the Periphery and the
  Centre
• A Calm Technology
• Currently used to create atmosphere, etc.
• How can ambient sounds to exploited to create
  more human-friendly systems?

3
In the workplace, and beyond

• Attention management
• Gradual increase/decrease in volume of ambient
  sounds
• Attract attention unobtrusively
• Influencing mood
• Low, soothing sounds for stressful situations
• Affect perception of environment

4
Research - I

• Basic research component
• Survey of literature
• Ambient sounds
• Parameters of presentation volume, genre
• Positioning, Dampening
• Noise?
• Social situations, group interactions, multi-user
  offices

5
Research - II

• Design component
• Standalone
• Managing background sound
• Automatic selection of music
• Integration with other systems
• Stress monitoring
• Interrupting
• Attention management