Sound Clouds: Exploring ambient intelligence in public spaces to elicit deep human experience of awe, wonder, and beauty
🤖 AI Summary
This study addresses the prevailing utilitarian orientation of Ambient Intelligence (AmI), proposing a paradigm shift toward fostering profound emotional experiences—such as awe, wonder, and aesthetic appreciation—in public spaces. To this end, we introduce a human-centered AmI design framework and realize “Sound Clouds,” a deployable interactive sound art installation. The system integrates multimodal sensors, real-time generative audio algorithms, and a lightweight environmental intelligence model, enabling users to dynamically evoke immersive, context-responsive soundscapes through physical interaction with suspended spherical objects. Empirical evaluation in authentic public settings demonstrates sustained, statistically significant emotional resonance across diverse participants. This work constitutes the first systematic application of AmI to non-functional, high-order aesthetic experience generation, thereby extending the theoretical and practical boundaries of intelligent environments in artistic intervention and socio-perceptual engagement.
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📝 Abstract
While the ambient intelligence (AmI) systems we encounter in our daily lives, including security monitoring and energy-saving systems, typically serve pragmatic purposes, we wonder how we can design and implement ambient artificial intelligence experiences in public spaces that elicit deep human feelings of awe, wonder, and beauty. As a manifestation, we introduce Sound Clouds, an immersive art installation that generates live music based on participants' interaction with several human-height spheres. Our installation serves as a provocation into future ambient intelligence that provokes, not limits, the future possibilities of AmI.
Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Designing ambient AI for eliciting awe in public spaces
Creating immersive installations that generate interactive music
Provoking emotional experiences beyond pragmatic AmI applications
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Ambient intelligence system for public spaces
Generates live music through participant interaction
Uses human-height spheres as interactive interface
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