Despite being a promising and lively playground, sound design is not a discipline as solid and established as visual or product design. We believe that the reason is to be found in the lack of design-oriented measurement and evaluation tools. The European project CLOSED (Closing the Loop Of Sound Evaluation and Design) aims at providing a functional-aesthetic sound measurement tool that can be profitably used by designers. At one end, this tool is linked with physical attributes of soundenhanced everyday objects; at the other end it relates to user emotional response. The measurement tool will be made of a set of easy-to-interpret indicators, which will be related to use in natural context, and it will be integrated in the product design process to facilitate the control of sonic aspects of objects, functionalities, and services encountered in everyday settings.
Cite as: Susini, P., Misdariis, N., Lemaitre, G., Houix, O., Rocchesso, D., Polotti, P., Franinovic, K., Visell, Y., Obermayer, K., Purwins, H., Adiloglu, K. (2006) Closing the loop of sound evaluation and design. Proc. 2nd ISCA/DEGA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2006), 164-166
@inproceedings{susini06_pqs,
author={Patrick Susini and Nicolas Misdariis and Guillaume Lemaitre and Olivier Houix and Davide Rocchesso and Pietro Polotti and Karmen Franinovic and Yon Visell and Klaus Obermayer and Hendrik Purwins and Kamil Adiloglu},
title={{Closing the loop of sound evaluation and design}},
year=2006,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd ISCA/DEGA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2006)},
pages={164--166}
}