What is it about?
What if we can automate the management of crowds by using non-intrusive acoustic stimuli and render our daily experience in busy stations or airport safer and more comfortable? We present here a proof of concept experiment in which an automated system tracks pedestrians and uses sonification to nudge their trajectories. Our result is yet counterintuive.
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Why is it important?
We live in a moment in which the the pressure on pedestrian facilities such as stations and transportation hubs is higher than ever. This is due to increasing urbanization and to the need of using sustainable ways of transportations. At the same time, it is often impossible to enlarge the existing infrastructures as the buildable space is finished. Here, we present a concept to render our environments smarter understanding the motion of pedestrians and nudging them autmatically.
Perspectives
Smartening our environments to ensure safety and serviceability is the only scalable way forward to sustain the current crowd pressure. Sound is an excellent option to guide pedestrians being direct and not intrusive. This work sets the bases for smart, automated, environments nudging crowds to maximize our daily experience.
Alessandro Corbetta
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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This page is a summary of: Towards Sound-based Crowd Management: Investigating Sonification for Pedestrian Steering, September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3561212.3561233.
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