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The artful sonic reminder for a quiet intensive care

This project was part of DDW 2019
The Doplor painting showing dynamic visuals — © Peixin Wang

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

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Extracting sound features with FFT — © Peixin Wang

Assembling the sound sensor — © Peixin Wang

Doplor installed at the Hallway of EMC Rotterdam

The design team Studio Reverb , client, and coach