Ripples: An Auditory Augmented Reality iOS Application for the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Yi Wu, and Jason Freeman

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2021
• Location: Shanghai, China
• Article Number: 46
• DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.b8e82252 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

This paper introduces “Ripples”, an iOS application for the Atlanta Botanical Garden that uses auditory augmented reality to provide an intuitive music guide by seamlessly integrating information about the garden into the visiting experience. For each point of interest nearby, “Ripples” generates music in real time, representing a location through data collected from users’ smartphones. The music is then overlaid onto the physical environment and binaural spatialization indicates real-world coordinates of their represented places. By taking advantage of the human auditory sense’s innate spatial sound source localization and source separation capabilities, “Ripples” makes navigation intuitive and information easy to understand.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_46,
 abstract = {This paper introduces “Ripples”, an iOS application for the Atlanta Botanical Garden that uses auditory augmented reality to provide an intuitive music guide by seamlessly integrating information about the garden into the visiting experience. For each point of interest nearby, “Ripples” generates music in real time, representing a location through data collected from users’ smartphones. The music is then overlaid onto the physical environment and binaural spatialization indicates real-world coordinates of their represented places. By taking advantage of the human auditory sense’s innate spatial sound source localization and source separation capabilities, “Ripples” makes navigation intuitive and information easy to understand.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {46},
 author = {Wu, Yi and Freeman, Jason},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.b8e82252},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/T7EJVACX3QI},
 title = {Ripples: An Auditory Augmented Reality iOS Application for the Atlanta Botanical Garden},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/n1o19efr},
 year = {2021}
}