GSA/ISO/ V&A Design Unwrapped: Interaction observation,usability discussion
17 April 2018
You are invited to take part in interaction and evaluation session lasting 2 hours, where you will be asked about your experiences of interactive learning in design museums, and to share how you would ideally like to interact with educational content to learn about how Scotland’s natural resources, landscape and location shaped the story of Scottish Design. You will also be invited to interact with the prototype of ISO’s Design Unwrapped exhibit for the V&A Dundee.
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About the researcher
Dr. Jessica Argo is a 3D sound designer, installation artist and lecturer in Sound at the Glasgow School of Art's School of Simulation and Visualisation. She has recently completed her PhD (at GSA, with supervision from the University of Glasgow's School of Psychology) where she composed immersive Ambisonic soundscapes to temporarily induce anxiety in exposure therapy, to encourage both physical desensitisation and mental catharsis for anxiety sufferers. These ambisonic soundscapes will advance psychiatric exposure therapy beyond the established Virtual Reality visualisation, real-life and talking techniques.
Dr. Jessica Argo creates mesmeric, immersive sound and visuals to be performed live, tailored to the socio-cultural setting. She pans sound across spatial arrays, projects video onto translucent mesh for the audience to play with in nightclubs, installs ambient white cube installations, and stages site-specific performances in unique acoustic environments (such as the Devil’s Mountain Listening Domes in Berlin). All performances are focused on transforming the mental and physical state of the audience, and now she bridges the gap between art and science as she records these induced affects with a physiological monitoring system (evaluating the fluctuations in a participant’s heart rate, sweat secretion and respiration rate).
