Description
Headphones often create excellent immersion and enable proper focus. However, things get tricky when surrounding world wants to communicate with you. This project is set to explore and define compelling use cases for a novel headphone technology that enables deep audio immersion—while selectively interrupting the experience when predefined auditory triggers (e.g., your name, “fire alarm”, or “meeting starting”) are detected. How can this technology enhance productivity, safety, or social interaction across different contexts?
Some initial use cases have been identified during the development of the technology, such as office environments, silent discos and parenting. What are some other potential contexts for the technology? How might it work intelligently in such situations and how to bring value to the headphone users and people surrounding them? How is the situation different with only one person having the headphones compared to situation where everyone uses them?
As results, we are expecting e.g., use-case scenarios with visuals or short video prototypes and UX journey maps for different personas (e.g., remote worker, DJ, commuter). If the team is interested in the technical approach, it can be taken into consideration as well.