ALARM/WILL/SOUND: PERCEPTION, CHARACTERIZATION, ACOUSTIC MODELING, AND DESIGN OF MODIFIED CAR ALARMS

Alexander Sigman (1) , Nicolas Misdariis (2)

1 Perception et design sonores;Interfaces Recherche/Création;
2 Equipe Perception et design sonores

This article outlines the salient phases, goals, and results of alarm/will/sound, a multidisciplinary musical research project carried out in the context of the IRCAM IRC (Interface Recherche-Création) Musical Residency Research program. 1 After the rationale for and motivations behind the project are presented, the following research and production milestones are described: 1) the elaboration and characterization of the sound corpus intended for the modified car alarm prototypes; 2) a sound perception experiment testing source typicality of a sub-category of sounds within the corpus; 3) an acoustic descriptor space in which a subset of the stimuli employed in the typicality experiment were situated; 4) the construction of synthetic auditory warnings from sound-sources within the descriptor space, prototypical environmental sound envelopes, and inter-onset intervals (IOI's) derived from extant car alarms; and 5) the design of a second experiment pertaining to levels of repulsion vs. attraction to the synthetic auditory warnings. Finally, short-, mid-, and long-term objectives and directions for the project are discussed.

Mots clés: Computer-Human Interface; Auditory warning; Sound design

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Alexander Sigman, Nicolas Misdariis. ALARM/WILL/SOUND: PERCEPTION, CHARACTERIZATION, ACOUSTIC MODELING, AND DESIGN OF MODIFIED CAR ALARMS. ICMC - International Computer Music Conference, Sep 2014, Athenes, Greece. ⟨hal-01546060⟩