{"id":1,"date":"2025-09-09T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:57:38","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"PhD thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Entitled <em>Wearable sound : integrative design for hearing and feeling vibrations<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theses.fr\/2023SORUS076\">Link to dissertation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9\" srcset=\"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-684x1024.jpg 684w, http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-768x1150.jpg 768w, http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_0738-scaled.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from connecting us to our sensory environment, our skin and ears share the unique ability to detect and appreciate vibrations. A single stimulus can simultaneously excite both the inner ear and the surface of the skin, through bone conduction and vibrotactile sensation. Bone conduction propagates sound waves to the inner ear by traveling inside the body, along musculoskeletal structures and through bones, soft tissue and fluids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our research, we referred to this manner of sound perception as extra-tympanic conduction: any auditory perception that does not depend on air-conducted sound waves. To elicit extra-tympanic sound perception, it is necessary to create contact between the skin and the source of vibration, which causes vibrotactile sensation within a specific frequency range. Assuming that it is not limited to the skull, we wondered how different points of stimulation on the torso (spine, clavicles, sternum, ribs) might influence the auditory, and mixed audio-tactile, perception of vibration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using the multimodal harness (V1 seen above) as a tool for creative exploration, we studied how the interaction between hearing and touch may inform how to compose spatialized vibrations for the surface and interior of the body. We also used it in two scientific experiments, which studied the perceived alignment between musical audio-tactile stimuli, and the \u2018bimodal\u2019 zone where auditory and tactile sensitivities overlap. The theoretical, experimental and creative outputs generated by the multimodal harness carry variations of a central narrative, telling the story that the experience of sound is about the experience of vibrations &#8211; something that everybody can perceive, and appreciate in their own way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the multimodal harness, a wearable audio-tactile interface for creative exploration and scientific study, we studied how the interaction between hearing and touch may inform how to compose spatialized vibrations for the surface and interior of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richards-claire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}