Senior Product designer in London

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Data noise #4

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After having watched a number of youtube videos of deaf peoples experiences and especially deaf dancers had  Vishal and I come up with the idea of enhancing the music experience. We found out that deaf dancers sense the music by placing their hands onto a speaker memorising the beat and have the music loud enough to feel it on the ground to come up with choreography to the beat. Instead of

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someone having to go back and forth to a speaker how about the user sense the music through their phone as it’s more portable. However, when coding Swift vibrations can only last a few seconds and not a whole song. Therefore, we decided to connect an aux to a vibrator and attach it to the back of a phone for the user to sense it in their palm. But, we faced a number of problems. Firstly, connecting it to the phone in full volume still doesn’t hold the power to make powerful vibrations. Secondly, when trying this with an amplifier the vibrator went bust after volume. Lastly, it would be difficult to differentiate music as the vibrations would be so similar.