Sonic City: Prototyping a Wearable Experience

  • Authors:
  • Ramia Mazé;Margot Jacobs

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Sonic City is a project exploring mobile interactionand wearable technology for everyday music creation.Awearable system has been developed that createselectronic music in real-time based on sensing bodily andenvironmental factors - thus, a personal soundscape isco-produced by physical movement, local activity, andurban ambiance simply by walking through the city.Applying multi-disciplinary methods, we havedeveloped the wearable from a scenario-driven, aestheticand lifestyle perspective.A garment has been crafted for'trying on' interaction and wearabilty options with userson-site in the city.With this prototype, we have been ableto expore and rapidly iterate context and content, socialand human factors of the wearable application.