Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The students learn to use sound to provide semantic, and interpretative clues and to leverage the expressive potential of sound in scenarios and prototypes of sounding interactive commodities. They also lean to employ a sonic interaction design process which allows to put sound and its meaning in context at the center of attention.

Credits: 3

Schedule: 11.04.2022 - 14.04.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Antti Ikonen, Daniel Hug

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Increasingly, physical artifacts of everyday use are endowed with information and communication technologies. These interactive commodities provide exciting new possibilities for sonic interaction design: They are objects with a complex, narrative and procedural identity which demands the use of sound beyond simple beeps.

  
  There is little knowledge and best practice of how to design novel, unique sounds for interactions that work. Therefore we are forced to invent and experiment. The goal of this workshop is to provide concepts, tools and methods to achieve this.

  
  We will explore the interaction with artifacts, their sounds and the possible relationships between them. We will investigate narrative and performative sound design strategies, learning to use sound to provide interpretative clues and to leverage the expressive potential of sound. These strategies then will be applied for developing contextualized scenarios and prototypes of sounding interactive commodities. For this, we will employ a sound-driven, "low-tech" experience prototyping method, which allows to experiment with innovative unorthodox sonic interaction design approaches without unnecessary technical limitations.

   

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  In order to get credited, the student must be present and complete the assignment(s) given during the workshop. The grade depends on the student s activity in the class plus the ingenuity of the design of the course assignment. A central focus lies on sonic elaboration and on a convincing concept and implementation of an "interaction with sound".

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Students must be present and complete the assignment(s) given during the workshop. The grade depends on the student s activity in the class plus the ingenuity of the design of the course assignment. A central focus lies on sonic elaboration and on a convincing concept and implementation of an "interaction with sound". 35h teaching.

DETAILS

Study Material

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Handouts and links given during the course, suggestions for reading and listening are provided.

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Period:

  (2020, 2021) - No teaching

  2021-2022 Spring IV

  Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=DOM-E5070

  Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts

  Sign-up in Oodi at least one week before the course starts.

   

   

  The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)

  The order of priority is as follows:

  1. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
  2. exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
  3. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
  4. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
  5. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
  6. students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
  7. students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
  8. students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
  9. other students.

   

  Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.

  This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.

   

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