SOUND DATA AS DESIGN MATERIAL: A MULTISENSORIAL AND INTERACTIVE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS FOR MATERIALIZING PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL DATA INTO MEANINGFUL ARTIFACTS

2023-1-17
Alpay, Efe
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Emotional connections with the products increase product lifetimes, thus decreasing waste and providing prolonged value. In creating this emotional connection, personally meaningful data (sonic memories) offer benefits that cannot be obtained by any other means in determining the meaning and value of a personal artifact by adopting the personalization approach. However, adaptation and mass-customization that can be attained with conventional design and production methods are far from exploiting these potentials due to the nature of their inflexible and limited processes. This research presents a method namely, Interactive Data Transformation Interface (IDTI) that uses sound data connected to memories as a source of meaning and value by converting sound data into three-dimensional forms. Using a research through design approach, this transformation method is developed as a result of primary user research that generates the dimensions of this transformation (meaning, clarity, accessibility, aesthetics, social clarity, and permanence). IDTI is implemented in a remote design workshop and refined with insights from both studies regarding creating meaningful and valuable artifacts. Findings of the process and implications are discussed and presented in this research.
data physicalization, co-design, product longevity, personalization, generative design research
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102547
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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E. Alpay, “SOUND DATA AS DESIGN MATERIAL: A MULTISENSORIAL AND INTERACTIVE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS FOR MATERIALIZING PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL DATA INTO MEANINGFUL ARTIFACTS,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.
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