interactions
Sonic City: Prototyping a Wearable Experience
ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Sonic City: the urban environment as a musical interface
NIME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
PersonalSoundtrack: context-aware playlists that adapt to user pace
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Discovering Madeira: a case study of cultural probes
Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
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Sonic City is a wearable system enabling the use of the urban environment as an interface for real-time electronic music making, when walking through and interacting with a city. The device senses everyday interactions and surrounding contexts, and maps this information in real time to the sound processing of urban sounds. We conducted a short-term study with various participants using our prototype in everyday settings. This paper describes the course of the study and preliminary results in terms of how the participants used and experienced the system. These results showed that the city was perceived as the main performer but that the user improvised different tactics and ad hoc interventions to actively influence and participate in how the music was created.