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Badum Tss!: A DIY Paper-based Interaction to Augment Everyday Situations with Sound Effects

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The DIY rollable soundboard is a paper-based instant button device, driven by a Raspberry Pi that allows for easily creating simple sound effects. With sound effects like a Badum Tss (the sound of drums which often appears for a bad joke in comedy shows), it augments everyday situations with a suitable sound while users are on the go. Since paper is quiet cheap and almost readily available, paper does not cause any inhibitions to touch it and create sounds. Unlike a simple instant button application on a private smartphone, the rollable soundboard invites people to explore it and to entertain their social environment. In this paper, we describe the design process for the development of a rollable, portable soundboard from the conceptual design down to the functional prototype and first usability tests, and discuss relevant areas of future work.

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    NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
    October 2016
    1045 pages
    ISBN:9781450347631
    DOI:10.1145/2971485
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    1. Paper-based interaction
    2. audio controller
    3. conductive ink
    4. hardware design
    5. tangible interaction

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