ོ࿐˖✶⊹₊𖦹 W.5 PROTOTYPE 𖦹₊⊹✶ ࣪˖࿐ོ




ANALOG VS DIGITAL

Photographic memory (ANALOG)

EXHIBIT A — visuals only

  • ✶ conventional way of remembering
  • ✶ digital photography
  • ✶ stagnant and still
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After much thought and consideration based on last week's feedbacks, I have come to a realisation that the boardgame isn't the best ideation outcome and focusing only on digital dementia seemed to steer way off my intial main focus on sound as a memory recall tool. However, the previous digital dementia tests has provided significant proof that sound does help with memory recall although it is more of a short-term than a long-term memory. Hence, I decided to come back to my main focus, sound, where this time, I would compare between analog — visual (photographs only) and digital — audio-visual (touch triggers sound interface)

    a series of photograhs featuring specific objects and locations

Sonic memory (AUDIO-VISUAL)


I had throughly found a few royalty-free videos that I am planning to use as background visuals for the soundscapes. I was thinking of using touchdesigner to edit the visuals but decided on learning to use Blender to create a few pixelated GIFs that are more relevant to the soundscapes, by creating the ASCII efffect.

  • Anieraser AI tool to remove royalty free logo
  • take specifically selected footage to blender and use geometry nodes
  • using RGB curves to remove messy background and focus on main object
  • reduce details for a more pizelated fragmented look
  • additional fogginess to the GIF
  • specially curated soundscape of child playing on the swings with different audio tracks mixed together



USING BLENDER

to create visuals that corresponds to their soundscapes

  • Audio track 001 — pixelated GIF of a child on a swing
  • Audio track 002 — pixelated GIF of someone gaming on a computer

AUDIO VS VISUAL

  • Since the purpose of this project is to provide awareness on the power of sound as a memory recall tool and encourage people of this internet generation to rely more on their auditory than visual senses by being more present in the moment through the act of listening, exhibit C would be a thoughts and reflections corner for the audience to share their memories and perspectives, which would be useful for me to gather more insights.






COMMENTARIES

by user-testing participants

  • ✶ Sound is more specific than
  • ✶ Sound contains more emotions
  • ✶ Aids in memory recall (eg. call-to-action, thinking perspective etc.)
  • ✶ Helps to trigger even more memory with detail
  • ✶ Sound is relatable and universal language
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Majority were agreeing that sound is more immersive than a still image, which aided in memory recall. One participants also shared that sound is a universal language therefore more relatable to the audience than a specific photograph of an object or location that the audience have not seen before.