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Building a Tool for Multisensory Storytelling Through DfA

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The authors’ aim is to look for a possible new contribution in combining messages on different channels to compose a multisensory communication which relies only partially on words and a designated language. The research focuses on understanding human multisensory experiences through testing. This paper focuses on first step which analyses, in multicultural groups of musically trained students, the relations between three elements which synergize quite early in spontaneous actions, sound, light and colors, testing occurring associations of color while listening to sounds categorized by tonality, major and minor, chords with their reversals, loudness and intensity, scales, musical motives and source instruments. The aim of this first step is to understand which associations could be considered mainly associable and the similarities in the feelings that color, light and sound may generate (in both balance and counterbalance) enucleating the differences.

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The authors wish to thank the students gathered from different countries which passionately participated to the tests.

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  1. Arts and Media College, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Avril Accolla

  2. Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen University, Trossingen, Germany

    Wolfgang Wagenhäuser

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi “G.d’Annunzio”Chiet-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. EIDD - Design for All Europe, Oliveto Lario, Italy

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Accolla, A., Wagenhäuser, W. (2018). Building a Tool for Multisensory Storytelling Through DfA. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_4

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