Collaborators

Jian Xiao - Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University

Mengyu Luo - Associate Professor, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology

@Southern University of Science and Technology

This research project studies urban sounds and their role in the human society, leveraging data-driven methods, mobile software development, and user-centered design.

The project aims to provide a novel mobile tool for understanding and playing with daily urban sounds. The research concerns the complexities of how people perceive and interpret urban soundscapes, and seek to disentangle the qualitative complexities through audio feature extraction and interactive data visualization. 

A cloud-based mobile app was designed for participatory collection, exploration, re-creation of urban soundscapes. The app engages ordinary users as a tool for documenting and reflecting on the auditory environments of their daily urban life.

Team (Sound Studies Group)

Xuehua Fu - Research Lead, Full-stack Engineer

Hao Zheng - UI Designer, Front-end Engineer

Zhaorui Liu - Sound Engineer

Jiayi Wen - Cloud Engineer

Prof. Marcel Zaes Sagesser - Principal Investigater

My Role

Leading the research, user-centered design, and technical development process.

Designed the cloud-based software architecture, responsible for full-stack development and maintenance.

Implemented the core algorithms for audio signal processing and data visualization.

Dates

July. 2024 - Present

Short demo