ོ࿐˖✶⊹₊𖦹 W.6 DISSERTATION & CONDUCTING PRE-SURVEY 𖦹₊⊹✶ ࣪˖࿐ོ


COLLECTING SURVEY DATA (TUES)

The main objective of this pre-survey I created is to discover if people relate to relying more on photographs than using their five senses to remember things and living in the present moment.

This is done by providing scenarios to mimic real-life situations. Secondly, using the survey to find out if people think that sound is more powerful in evoking past experiences than photographs.

The second part of the pre-survey is crucial as it is to collect autobiographical memories target audiences where they will be carefully organised, selected and curated to be featured in the prototypes. This is to ensure that the soundscapes created are 'specific soundscapes - Prototype A', relatable and meaningful to the target audiences.

  • ✧ Relatability
  • ✧ Awareness on the Importance of Sound
  • ✧ Collecting Autobiographical Memories



Collecting real-life personal memories
to feature in artefacts (photographs)
and (sound)





Questionnaires to know if people are aware of the overreliance of technology, not living in the present moment and agree that sound is important

Pre-Survey Questionnaires


There were a total of 8 respondents who participated in the survey. It isn't a lot but it was enough to know that there are people who are interested in this topic and are willing to share their thoughts and experiences with me as I have collected about 30 personal and detailed memories that were shared to me in the survey. (One can submit multiple memories)

I was also surprised to see that there were people who are aware of the importance of sound and chooses sound over sight even before interacting with my prototypes, even though it wasn't the popular answer.

  • many can relate to the overreliance on technology to remember things but unsure of whether sound is a stronger memory recall tool than photographs
  • asked this out of pure curiosity but was surprised there were people who personally choose sound over sight even before interacting with my prototypes
  • getting to know and collecting target audiences' age group, gender and nationality data
  • to find out how important do they think sound is before interacting with the experiential prototypes
  • collecting autobiographical memories of target audiences to be selected and featured in the prototypes
  • collating all respondents respponses in an excel sheet; a total of 30 memories collected