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MacKrill, James B., Cain, Rebecca and Jennings, P. A. (Paul A.) (2016) Proposing a conceptual framework to develop the hospital soundscape through visual communication. Design Journal, 19 (3). pp. 491-509. doi:10.1080/14606925.2016.1149330 ISSN 1460-6925 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2016.1149330
Abstract
Sound level measurement is used to assess sound within any environment, never more so than in hospitals. This is due to the negative effects that high sound level can have on patients and staff. However, other ways of exploring sound and the soundscape within the hospital context have been used: sound art has conveyed the experiences of heart transplant patients. Art may act as juxtaposition to objective sound level measurement but the two fundamentally attempt to depict attributes of the soundscape. Using theory from design and concepts from art a framework is presented for designing a positive soundscape experience. This is not through the addition of sound per se but through creatively communicating the information contained within a soundscape to enable the everyday listener to interpret a cacophony of hospital sounds more positively. In representing visual communication of sound as a design object, a new way to explore sound may exist.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Hospitals -- Noise, Visual communication | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Design Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1460-6925 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 491-509 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14606925.2016.1149330 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 October 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 January 2018 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||||||
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