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This project deals with the topic of social interrelations; its aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of these relations through the use of sound and mobile devices/ubiquitous computing. The proposed framework follows two interdependent directions: 1) using environmental sounds as input data for context analysis, 2) using sound as an output to express results (sonification). This project is part of a long-term research project concerning sound based social networks, conducted at the Research Centre for Science and Technology in Arts (CITAR). The aim of this paper is to share some initial results, both practical and conceptual in form of a related work overview on social networking technologies, a conceptual design for a Facebook® application based on the project initial idea (including an IPhone® g...

É de conhecimento generalizado que na área de investigação em novos interfaces para expressão musical (NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression), poucos dos resultantes dispositivos acabam por ser popularizados e adoptados pelo grande público. Algum do trabalho em computação sonora e musical (SMC- Sound and Music Computing) sugere que uma das causas para esta dificuldade, reside numalacuna ao nível da investigação dos comportamentos humanos como linha orientadora para os desenvolvimentos tecnológicos. Muitos dos desenvolvimentos tecnológicos são conduzidos sem um real objectivo, para além da inovação tecnológica, resultando em excelentes produtos, mas sem qualquer enfâse na usabilidade humana ou envolvimento do utilizador no processo de Design (UCDUser Centered Design), no sentido de garantir que a inovação atende a neces...

This project deals with the topic of social interrelations; its aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of these relations through the use of sound and mobile devices/ubiquitous computing. The proposed framework follows two interdependent directions: 1) using environmental sounds as input data for context analysis, 2) using sound as an output to express results (sonification). This project is part of a long-term research project concerning sound based social networks, conducted at the Research Centre for Science and Technology in Arts (CITAR). The aim of this paper is to share some initial results, both practical and conceptual in form of a related work overview on social networking technologies, a conceptual design for a Facebook® application based on the project initial idea (including an IP...

6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Porto, Portugal, 23-25 July 2009