Doplor
The artful sonic reminder for a quiet intensive care
Hosted by Critical Alarms Lab (TU Delft)This project is now archived and was part of DDW19
Event type
Exhibition
Location
Strijp T+R
Piet Hein Eek
Halvemaanstraat 30
5651BP
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
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
About Critical Alarms Lab (TU Delft)
Critical Alarms Lab,
Delft University of Technology
Colofon
Client/Director of Critical Alarms Lab
Dr. Elif Ozcan Vieira
Project Coach
Stefan Persaud
Team member of Studio Reverb
Yiling Liu
Team member of Studio Reverb
Jip Schelling
Team member of Studio Reverb
Peixin Wang
Team member of Studio Reverb
Rob Moleman
Team member of Studio Reverb
Melek Akan
Original concept designer of Doplor
Roel Redert
Partners
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