USC協力展示
USC Projects
USC協力展示
USC Projects
聴覚障がいのある児童のリハビリ支援を目的に作られた多感覚トレーニングゲーム。 聴覚にとって不可欠な空間認識に重点を置きつつ、楽しい物語やビジュアルで構成さ れた「遊び」を基本とすることで、訓練に対する児童の意欲を損なわないようにして いる。
Soundtoy is a multi-sensory training game designed to assist hard of hearing children in their journey to the auditory rehabilitation. With focus on spatial perception, an essential element of hearing, we are developing a technical set-up that is comprised of four small, wooden speakers and an iPad app. The app is a host platform of multiple modules of games. In collaboration with artists and scientists, we combine storytelling and inspiring visual styles to design fun and enjoyable training experiences. Taking play as the foundation and with a multimodal approach to engage the aural, visual, haptic, and kinesthetic senses, Soundtoy aims to foster cross-modal learning, attention and motivation in the learners. The interventions that Soundtoy brings to the hard of hearing children, whose need for support goes so often unfulfilled, is uniquely made possible through interdisciplinary research across art, technology, and science. ‘Scurry Along’ is a hide and seek game that trains players’ ability to listen to sounds spatially distributed through 4 wireless speakers.
メディアアーティスト、研究者。USCメディアアート＋プラクティス博士課程在籍。21世紀の文化において、感覚モダリティと文化的対象として「音」の役割を探求している。理論とアートの実践では、音の知覚と音の記憶の没入性、体現性、そして感情的な影響を反映している。研究テーマは、個人によるリスニング技術と空間のメディア考古学的研究、聴覚リハビリテーションのためのマルチモーダル・トレーニングの学際的研究、難聴者の音楽鑑賞など。メディア作品では、知覚体験の本質を伝える様々な聴き方を可能とする制作をつづけている。
Born in South Korea, Juri Hwang is a media artist, researcher and currently a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She explores the role of sound in 21st century culture as a sense modality and cultural object. In her theory and art practice, she reflects on the immersive, embodied, and affective nature of sonic perception and sonic memory. Her research includes media-archeological study of personal listening technologies and space, interdisciplinary research on multi-modal training for auditory rehabilitation, and music appreciation with hearing loss. In her media work, she invites listeners to engage in different modes of listening as essential element of perceptual experience. Her recent media installations include the award winning embodied sonic experience “Somatic Echo,” which uses bone conducted sound to turn the listener’s body into a medium of sound, and "Nightfield,” a spatial sound installation exploring material and spatial resonances of sonic memory.
