Pablo: Designing an Everyday Companion for Visualizing Auditory Memories
Shu-Ping Chan, Yi‐Ning Chen, Hsiao-Yeh Yang, Wun-Han Fan, Wenn-Chieh Tsai · Creativity and Cognition · 2021
From a slow technology perspective, we designed Pablo to visualize auditory memories and explore the recalling processes. Pablo randomly records daily sound of users, visualizes the sound into an abstract image and prints it out with QR code of the sound file. In this manner, Pablo introduces time gaps for users to speculate and recall after they receive the picture card. We conducted a field trial with two participants and each with Pablo at home for two days. We found that Pablo encourages the users to reflect on their memories in different aspects. Through associating images with sound and memories, the users give new interpretations on images. They start to think and reflect due to the slowness of this sense-making process and interact with their embodied memories.