SonicAIR is an ambient awareness technology probe designed to explore how connecting the soundscapes of friends or family members might reduce the isolation of seniors living independently. At its core, SonicAIR instruments kitchen activity sites to produce an always-on real-time aural representation of remote domestic rhythms. This paper reports how users in two pilot SonicAIR deployments used the sounds as resources for recognizing comfortable narratives of sociability. Used alongside telecare monitoring, such technologized interaction might enable older people to engage in community-oriented soundscape narratives of shared social responsibility.
Citation
Hanif Baharin, Stephen Viller, and Sean Rintel. 2015. SonicAIR: Supporting Independent Living with Reciprocal Ambient Audio Awareness. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 22, 4, Article 18 (July 2015), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/2754165
BibTeX
@article{baharin2015sonicair,
author = {Baharin, Hanif and Viller, Stephen and Rintel, Sean},
title = {SonicAIR: Supporting independent living with reciprocal ambient audio awareness},
year = {2015},
month = {July},
url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/sonicair-supporting-independent-living-with-reciprocal-ambient-audio-awareness/},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions},
volume = {22},
number = {4},
}