《 Memories in Motion, Circulating Thoughts 》

OBJECTIVE

An interactive interface that alows users to interact with the touchboard to enter an immersive soundscape. To begin, users listen to a soundscape and recall the movement in it. Then, interact with movement buttons that they associate with the most to the sound, to project different movements on the screen.


HOW IT WORKS

A Digital Animation Application

Through user-testings, it is said that movement and sound association is interesting and an innovative way of engaging with our memory. Users also find it therapeutic to extract specific sounds from an environmental soundscape and linking them to movements from a recalled memory. Using sound and converting them to freestyle animation causes flashbacks of scenes from the past.

(Eg. *water sounds* User A says, “Hey, track 005 reminds me of the waterfall I saw during my Switzerland trip.” *rainfall downward movements* while User B says, “It gave me flashbacks of the day at Lazarus Island with my friends when it suddenly rained. We were kayaking...” *ripple pulsating movements* )

There are limitations, whereby there are only 12 fixed movement variables to play with.

Tasks:

• ✶ Do a pre-survey
• ✶ Pick a soundscape from 12 tracks
• ✶ Listen and recall a memory
• ✶ Recall the movements in the memory
• ✶ Re-enact them with the interactive buttons
• ✶ Do a post-survey