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Sensory Replacement

What is it? Related Devices Can it be applied to the art world?

Sensory Alteration Sensory Replacement Sensory Enhancement Sensory Change

Sensory Replacement Reason Idea behind it Examples

Why? Absence/loss of ability to transmit sensory signals to brain


 
 Not all hope is lost! “Persons who become blind do not lose the capacity to see. Usually, they lose the peripheral sensory system (the retina), but retain central visual mechanisms … Providing information from artificial receptors offers an opportunity to restore function.” 
 - Sensory Substitution and the human-machine interface by Paul Bach- y-Rita and Stephen W. Kercel

Restore ability to perceive certain defective sensory

Sensory Replacement

Devices Equipment Interaction

Sensor —> Coupling System —> Stimulator

vOICe 
 Auditory Visualisation 
 Visual input to audio output

BrainPort Balance Device

Can it be applied to the art world?

Aisen Caro Echolocation IrukaTact Play-A-Grill Headphones

Play-A-Grill music player and music fashion object sound transmitted via bone conduction hearing

Echolocation Headphones enhance current ability of processing omnidirectional sound by providing focal point to audition

IrukaTact inspired by dolphin echolocation sonar sensor that send haptic signals to wearer’s fingertips closer the object, stronger the pressure

https://www.facebook.com/mashablescience/videos/ 10154557459919705/

Stelarc Ear on Arm

References https://askabiologist.asu.edu/echolocation https://www.facebook.com/mashablescience/videos/10154557459919705/ https://www.seeingwithsound.com/sensub.htm http://www.aisencaro.com/scent.html http://www.aisencaro.com/play-a-grill.html http://www.aisencaro.com/echo.html https://isea2016.scm.cityu.edu.hk/openconf/modules/request.php? module=oc_program&action=view.php&id=464&type=4&a= http://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-vestibular-research/ves00290