SONAURA APP_A SOUND EXPERIENCE

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Sonaura App

A Sound experience

Design of a sound sharing platform with a blind-friendly User Interface

With this project our aim is to provide an experience of space perception that involves other senses different from eyesight. Towards the use of Synesthesia we wanted to translate the visual information into a sound experience that can be accessible to blind and visual impaired people.
Perceiving the environment and exploring it should not be an experience only supported by visual information. We can relay on the other senses too, for example like the auditory sense, which could let us have another comprehension of surroundings and create new memories.

With Sonaura, blind and sighted people will be able to have a real-time sound experience while walking through usual and unusual places. Attractive sounds perceived during this sound experience can be captured, customised and shared with other people along your path.
Combining the vocal navigation support with a Doppler effect sound navigation and a blind friendly interface, the app will allow user to walk without ting lost and have the chance to focus on their listening.

Customer Experience

The main goal of this project is to highlight the sound experience rather than the visual one. The unique aspect of this user experience is the possibility to let users interact with their device, completely supported by vocal and audio information.

Combining high contrast and simple graphics, supported by movement and animation, will allow the visual impaired user to comfortably understand the interface while being supported by the audio navigation.

User Interaction

As the navigation is planned for people with reduced sight, the movement are crucial to create a smooth and understandable navigation. The movement are really simple and iconic, so that the user, with the time, will memorise them really easily. This will also allow the users, if wanted, to limit the audio voice over only during the navigation screen. Each of these interaction will have a soft sound confirmation so that the user can perceive its completion also without seeing the screen.