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Improving health with Sound Design

Sandra Pauletto

  • 26 September 2014
    7.15pm - 7.30pm

  • York Medical Society (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible (through the garden)

Event details

Sound is a highly effective channel of communication in our everyday life. Not only can it be engaging, emotional and entertaining, it can also have a function, for example it can signal danger (an alarm). In health, effective communication plays a key role in many relationships, such as between patients and health professionals or scientists and the general public.

In this talk we will discuss how sound design, that is, the art of creating new functional sounds, can help improve this communication. We will show how digital sound can help improve diagnosis and therapy, how a synthesised voice, created for people who have lost or never had the ability to talk, could be customisable and personal. You can even find out how sound design can get you engaging with important health issues!

This is one of twelve thought-provoking short talks throughout the evening at York Medical Society on all things health-related by researchers from across eight different departments at the University of York. The talks are divided into three sessions over four hours, starting at 5pm and ending at 9.20pm, which are interspersed with refreshments and a chance to speak to the researchers, some of whom have been researching for years and some of whom are just at the start of their careers.