Mapping Social Interaction through Sound: Conceptual Framework, Technological Development, and Real-World Studies
Jin Hyun Kim, Marcello Lussana, Benjamin Stahl · edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · 2021
The crucial role of social cohesion in modern society has shaped the debate on the impact of digitisation that, apart from revolutionary benefits, may also be discussed in light of risk factors contributing to isolation of individuals and prevalence of mental disorders.Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the project "Social Interaction through Sound Feedback-Sentire" uses digitisation to promote embodied and situated human-computer interaction in artistic and musical contexts (www.sentire.me).Participants connect in a physicalas opposed to a virtual-environment by wearing specific bracelets that provide instant sound feedback depending on distance and touch between individuals.Based on central premises of "Sentire," the present interdisciplinary symposium focuses on current attempts to overcome the challenge of social cohesion in modern society by using embodied and situated human-computer interaction in artistic and musical contexts.In particular, questions of the symposium include: How does communicative interaction-describable as "musical" in both a literal and metaphorical sense-establish a sense of mutual affiliation?Are these processes relevant to social cohesion?And if so, how can communicative interaction inform social cohesion in aspects of everyday life?