Audio-Frequency Induction Loops (AFILs) as a Design Materialfor Architectural Interactivity: An Illustrated Guide

Eleni Economidou; Bart Hengeveld; Moritz Kubesch; Alina Krischkowsky; Martin Murer; Manfred Tscheligi

doi:10.1145/3461778.3462070

Audio-Frequency Induction Loops (AFILs) as a Design Materialfor Architectural Interactivity: An Illustrated Guide

Eleni Economidou, Bart Hengeveld, Moritz Kubesch, Alina Krischkowsky, Martin Murer, Manfred Tscheligi

Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces

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Abstract

Audio-frequency induction loops (AFILs) are commonly used as an assistive listening technology for hard-of-hearing 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.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel	DIS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Untertitel	Nowhere and Everywhere
Erscheinungsort	Online
Seiten	1201-1214
Seitenumfang	14
ISBN (elektronisch)	9781450384766
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462070
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - Juni 2021

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Our sincere thanks to the staff, students and headmaster of the Josef Rehrl Schule for permitting us to pursue research under their roof. We gratefully acknowledge the trust and support from Salzburg Wohnbau GmbH, the Salzburg Government, Salzburg AG, the electrician, and the architect in charge who made Sound of Space a reality. We appreciate the financial support of the Federal government of Land Salzburg (WISS 2025). Special thanks to our colleagues for proofreading this document and Anton Bauer who supported us during assembly and installation. We also thank all the reviewers for their constructive insights and feedback on our work.

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Economidou, E., Hengeveld, B., Kubesch, M., Krischkowsky, A., Murer, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2021). Audio-Frequency Induction Loops (AFILs) as a Design Materialfor Architectural Interactivity: An Illustrated Guide. in DIS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Nowhere and Everywhere (S. 1201-1214). https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462070

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