SAUDADE : reviving travel experiences through sound to evoke positive emotions
Zineb Bektachi, 一徳 杉浦 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2018
People travel in search of strong emotions that differ from those felt in their daily life.By capturing the memorable experiences of their holidays, they hope to have something they reminisce about, because remembering and imagining can be as powerful as reliving the experience again.However, with the advances in technology, people accumulate a large number of digital mementos that they do not revisit as often as they intended to do.Researchers have been exploring the impact of tangible mementos and how they differ from their digital counterparts.We propose the concept of "SAUDADE", a tangible encapsulation of travel memories, using emotional nostalgic design approach that combines familiarity and novelty.This concept uses sound instead of visual or audio-visual mementos since sound contributes to evoke emotions.In this research, we will discuss whether sound can be used as a memento, whether tangible interaction can facilitate navigating and revisiting sounds and finally whether the practice of reviving memories of past travel experiences through sound can have a positive emotional impact on people or not.