Towards Somaesthetic Smarthome Designs

Dang, Chi Tai; Aslan, Ilhan; Lingenfelser, Florian; Baur, Tobias; André, Elisabeth

doi:10.1145/3365871.3365893

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“…People especially those with CCN (Complex Communication Needs) have a great need for speech synthesisers that are able to convey a variety of expressive styles in a natural manner. This aspect is also important in light of the rapidly increasing speech interaction and its acceptance in smarthomes [6], to respond appropriately to the emotions of residents [7].…”

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“…To evaluate the quality of the produced speech, a variety of perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, such as intelligibility and naturalness, have been defined (see [10] for an overview) that are also employed in the annual 'Blizzard' challenge 7 on advancing speech synthesis. Also, the emotional atmosphere of a scene and the moods of the characters have been included as a quality dimension in audiobook synthesis tasks.…”

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Synthesising Expressive Speech – Which Synthesiser for VOCAs?

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In the context of people with complex communication needs who depend on Voice Output Communication Aids, the ability of speech synthesisers to convey not only sentences, but also emotions would be a great enrichment. The latter is essential and very natural in interpersonal speech communication. Hence, we are interested in the expressiveness of speech synthesisers and their perception. We present the results of a study in which 82 participants listened to different synthesised sentences with different emotional contours from three synthesisers. We found that participants' ratings on expressiveness and naturalness indicate that the synthesiser CereVoice performs better than the other synthesisers.

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Synthesising Expressive Speech – Which Synthesiser for VOCAs?

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2020

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PiHearts: Resonating Experiences of Self and Others Enabled by a Tangible Somaesthetic Design

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Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Digitalization is penetrating every aspect of everyday life including a human's heart beating, which can easily be sensed by wearable sensors and displayed for others to see, feel, and potentially "bodily resonate" with. Previous work in studying human interactions and interaction designs with physiological data, such as a heart's pulse rate, have argued that feeding it back to the users may, for example support users' mindfulness and self-awareness during various everyday activities and ultimately support their wellbeing. Inspired by Somaesthetics as a discipline, which focuses on an appreciation of the living body's role in all our experiences, we designed and explored mobile tangible heart beat displays, which enable rich forms of bodily experiencing oneself and others in social proximity. In this paper, we first report on the design process of tangible heart displays and then present results of a field study with 30 pairs of participants. Participants were asked to use the tangible heart displays during watching movies together and report their experience in three different heart display conditions (i.e., displaying their own heart beat, their partner's heart beat, and watching a movie without a heart display). We found, for example that participants reported significant effects in experiencing sensory immersion when they felt their own heart beats compared to the condition without any heart beat display, and that feeling their partner's heart beats resulted in significant effects on social experience. We refer to resonance theory to discuss the results, highlighting the potential of how ubiquitous technology could utilize physiological data to provide resonance in a modern society facing social acceleration.

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The SHAPES Smart Mirror Approach for Independent Living, Healthy and Active Ageing

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Ruiz

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The benefits that technology can provide in terms of health and support for independent living are in many cases not enough to break the barriers that prevent older adults from accepting and embracing technology. This work proposes a hardware and software platform based on a smart mirror, which is equipped with a set of digital solutions whose main focus is to overcome older adults’ reluctance to use technology at home and wearable devices on the move. The system has been developed in the context of two use cases: the support of independent living for older individuals with neurodegenerative diseases and the promotion of physical rehabilitation activities at home. Aspects such as reliability, usability, consumption of computational resources, performance and accuracy of the proposed platform and digital solutions have been evaluated in the initial stages of the pilots within the SHAPES project, an EU-funded innovation action. It can be concluded that the SHAPES smart mirror has the potential to contribute as a technological breakthrough to overcome the barriers that prevent older adults from engaging in the use of assistive technologies.

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Towards Somaesthetic Smarthome Designs

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Synthesising Expressive Speech – Which Synthesiser for VOCAs?

Synthesising Expressive Speech – Which Synthesiser for VOCAs?

PiHearts: Resonating Experiences of Self and Others Enabled by a Tangible Somaesthetic Design

The SHAPES Smart Mirror Approach for Independent Living, Healthy and Active Ageing

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