Doplor, an environmental monitoring device, uses moving visuals to convey sound quality in Intensive Care Units. The aim is to increase nurses’ awareness of excessive noise in a friendly manner, thus to incite a sound-conscious behavior and improve sound management in intensive care.
Excessive noise is one of the most publicly debated issues in intensive care. Beeping alarms, conversations, droning support devices and the caregiving activities that clatter, buzz, and ping turn intensive care units into an acoustically hostile environm
Play video