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Here-Say, Near-Say, and We're-Say - Semantic Soundscapes and the Social Area Network

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Winter sun, early morning
  • Morning routine - walk around aimlessly
  • brush teeth, shower, clothes
  • station to station
  • forgot to charge iphone
  • make sure I have everything (keys)
  • check fridge - need to get eggs

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I go on my way to work. Show off croquet feature and ask how they drive?
California traffic
  • Waze - keep looking down
  • Get Cut off - lack of empathy for others
  • Stuck in traffic - bored and listen to podcast - annoying voice
team meeting
  • Meeting
  • Off topic
  • ignore or talk over
San Francisco Rain 2
  • Raining - forgot umbrella
  • call friend for lunch - ask where he is
  • Looking for a good restaurant - go on yelp and it's covered in rain
  • Have to keep looking down at the phone to figure the map
dining at delarosa
  • Takes a while to get a table, then a while to get food
  • Talk and have a pretty good conversation - should make a podcast like this
Protest in San Francisco
  • See a protest
  • You like what they stand for, but just not right now
  • A distraction, late to work
Very busy people
  • Looking for someone - not at their desk
  • Go on slack, but they take a while to respond
  • status is "online", but for what? For whom?
  • also don't like sending messages - gotta be too formal
  • Miscommunicated with someone because you didn't get too much sleep
  • Paranoid about the way a co-worker said something - will tell spouse
TechCrunch: Disrupt SF 2013
  • Go to event from meetup
  • Shy - can't just go up to people
  • too loud - have to lean in and yell - worried about breath
  • have to lean in to see nametag - awkward
  • Had a great conversation with 1 guy - can't do it again, too tired
  • congested and have to walk around - slow down to see booths
  • Asked to do surveys after - don't care - also had to input info beforehand
January 3, 2011
  • Go to store to get groceries
  • forgot what I needed
  • THey moved everything again
My New Favorite Gym
  • keep opening workout log to remember my workouts and weights
  • not sure if form is correct
  • someone's using my machine and I have to wait
190/365
  • shared laundry - have to keep checking if it's available
  • cook dinner - forgot eggs
  • cook the same thing - too much work to learn something new
  • Have to watch/listen to something while I eat
apartment 5g
  • can't sleep - neighbors are loud and walking loudly
Mass Hypnotism
  • we pass people and ignore them, but listen to others and love them
  • we're out of sync and bump into each other when we're out of phase
  • judge by looks alone
  • we use social media to connect with people far away, but toss them aside when talking to people in person
  • Physical Proximity does not mean mental proximity
  • Recreate a Social Network for in-person encounters
Winter sun, early morning
  • Your morning routine is linear, where you hear each step
  • perform the action to remove the sound, like a to-do list you check with action
  • look in fridge and say "i need eggs"
  • hear keys, go get them - or say "keys?" and find them
  • say the things you need - note the cadence can detect search
  • hear rain on the roof - not now, but a premonition
  • sound of wind indicating the door is open or unlocked
California traffic
  • Waze - hear objects, like sirens
  • Waze Gaze - look at objects and say it - or nod to confirm
  • Navigation - hear sounds on left or right side to turn
  • Stuck in traffic - can talk to others in other cars - filter by destination
  • Ear-tracking - can focus in on certain conversations
  • Listen to podcast - can change the phont if I don't like it
  • Can also leave comments while I listen, using my recording as a review
  • Text-to-Speech isn't enough
  • Animators can articulate the rig, but not the vocal tract
  • Can also think about using utterances and pitch for control
  • How would you animate a rig?
  • Vocap - voice-controlled
  • can pipe all voices through a singular Phont, like handwriting
  • can change how we communicate, extracting the body from the meaning
  • can have others' voices convert to your voice, or VV
team meeting
  • Conference Call with noise cancellation
  • specify topics
  • look at person to give them a voice
  • say "what", and repeat recording
  • Croquet
San Francisco Rain 2
  • call friend, spatializing their voice
  • Yelp Eavesdropping - reviews, availability
  • Can look at building and "call it", reserving a table
  • People who liked it are laid off
dining at delarosa
  • can wait for table and go wherever, with sounds indicating arrival (bus stop)
  • Can hear reviews of dish as you look at it (eyetracking)
  • hear progress of dish - actually want to wait
  • can record comments on food and share them as public reviews
  • have conversation, mentioning links shared via browser history
  • word cloud helps track topics (opposite of meeting)
  • people can overhear if you want to livestream it
  • use browser history as works cited, knowing where you hear that
  • note shared browser history (both saw the same video)
  • can note preior conversations with others beforehand
  • A podcast is a multimedia multi-comment, commenting on multiple posts online
  • content itself is a comment
  • Browsing together with others
  • We communicate indirectly through comments
  • couple content and comment
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Protest in San Francisco
  • Can record your protest and place them on all locations
  • anyone who "tunes in" to protests can hear them when they walk there
  • Say Once, Hear Anywhere
  • Can protest anywhere, any time, and for anyone who's "in the mood"
  • followers can hear their issues at the right place/time
Very busy people
  • Status means thing - "online" or "away"
  • You're always "online" - specify what you're "available" for, e.g. certain meetings/calls/people
  • Each co-worker has a "theme" indicating their prescence and state
  • can walk by employee and hear static indicating that they're busy
  • Can use health and conversation data to let others know you're tired/hungry or haven't gone on break - why you may have acted that way
  • can also have abstract "roles", so you can contact anyone with permissions/authorization, not specific people
  • what if they leave and you walk by their desk?
  • if gone, they can say where they're going or doing, and they'll hear it if they walk by or say your name

Aleatory Extension by Evin Sellin

  • Auditory Display for data
  • asked him about sonifying runtime
  • Can think about existing system sounds
  • Web Audio test
  • OOP with sounds of objects, noting their state and methods
  • Audio QR codes
TechCrunch: Disrupt SF 2013
  • can hear recordings of event spatialized to venue, even if far away
  • can prepare for event by saying name, listing preferneces and skills...
  • A large audio call
  • geiger counter connects people based on shared interests or agenda
  • hear SIRI saying your relation, like everyone's best friend
  • look at them and hear their name
  • word cloud can attract others to hear key-parts
  • walk by venues to hear previews of talks (for meetups in general, like a poster)
  • walk by booths with pre-recorded pitches - can also speak to booth owners even if they're not there (call owner - call car)
  • say "bathroom" and hear where the bathroom is (and its availability)
  • ear-tracking for ongoing conversation
  • can also rewind others' conversations to catch up
  • For presentations, you can write a script and "trace" it, like an audio teleprompter (from imrovised to scripted like this)
  • It can be easy for audience interaction, plus remove speakers/microphones
  • surveys - asks you questions and you can answer whenever
  • Can also just ask a question in general and crowdsource information
  • can record thought bubble and hear it as you walk past people
  • Can also just ask for help and it floats above you, like a quest - or in an area that needs help
  • can use this outside the venue - don't even need buildings (it's just people)
  • can use this to connect you to people, buildings (employment or apartments)
  • Can walk by areas that politics are about (vote for that school)
January 3, 2011
  • Walk in, hear "Welcome to Safeway" indicating prescence
  • Triggers your shopping list (this place can fulfill it), spatialized to location
  • Can also send others messages that get triggered by location or context, like "when you get to the store"
  • Just like the morning routine - from item to item
  • If you want to explore, you can hear peer reviews, just like the restaurant
  • from friends to influencers to chatbots
  • can register filters based on diet/browser history, e.g. bad sounds if near unhealthy food
  • Ask question about item and have a chat-bot for that product's company
  • can also ask the store a question, which is delegated to whatever employee is registered
  • can answer your question or pass it to another employee (don't repeat)
  • say "done" and be added to the queue - can go whenever, as long as you're back (bus or train stop)
  • can reuse this system for employees communicating with others (know state of back-end), or doordash
My New Favorite Gym
  • position sound to machines to go to (to-do list)
  • voice says what weight to do
  • sound indicating quantity and quality of reps, and auto-log workouts
  • can also use croquet to register machines for reservations
190/365
  • Cooking - load recipe and prepares timers
  • spatialize audio to items (blender sound on items)
  • have food tell you where to put it ("put me in the blender")
  • oven timer creates artifical sound of fire, and crackling of meat to make sure you don't burn it
  • Comment on food (used for the grocery store)
  • Call random person just to have someone to talk to (about day, etc)
  • can play random people's voices (or procedural voices for ambiance, using markov chains)
  • can take conversations and tune in/out of actual words (white noise)
apartment 5g
  • can project voices and footsteps based on your own voice/footsteps for empathy
  • footsteps
  • Also use for gait and form correction
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  • Walkie Talkie with Voice
  • Walkie Talkie with Siri
  • remove voice and cadence - both or neither
  • piping all voices to a single phont can be isolating

Technologies

    Head Tracking

    Eye Tracking

    Ear Tracking

    Precise User Location

    Objt Position

  • Head Tracking
  • eye tracking - reading
  • ear tracking
  • Precise User location
  • Object Position
  • Echo Frames, Microsoft earbuds, google earbuds, apple airpods

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