Paper Info
Title
Audio-Frequency Induction Loops (AFILs) as a Design Materialfor Architectural Interactivity: An Illustrated Guide
Abstract
Audio-frequency induction loops (AFILs) are commonly used as an assistive listening technology for hard-ofhearing individuals. They generate an electromagnetic field proportional to a sound source receivable by hearing aids. Our interactive system, the Sound of Space, is based on AFILs that generate a multi- dimensional soundscape in space. Cochlear implant ( CI) listeners and hearing-aids wearers can experience the soundscape through bodily movement, whereas hearing individuals can experience it via a corresponding tangible device. While typical AFIL installations transmit a single sound source, in our interactive system we implement overlapping loops and their interference to locate multiple synchronised audio sources (i.e., corresponding electromagnetic fields) in space. The designed system is installed permanently in an integrative school for deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing students and teachers. In this pictorial, we illustrate our design and implementation process and contribute our learnings of using AFILs as a design material for architectural interactivity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3461778.3462070
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 ACM DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (DIS 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Audio-frequency, induction loops, hearing loops, AFILs, design material, architectural interactivity, long-term deployment
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eleni Economidou103.04
Bart Hengeveld29013.77
Moritz Kubesch300.34
Alina Krischkowsky4429.89
Martin Murer514221.10
Manfred Tscheligi62567570.72