Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Taie, I., Di Franco, P., Tymkiw, M., Williams, D., & Daly, I. (2022). Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits. PLoS ONE, 17(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269370

Museums have widely embraced virtual exhibits. However, relatively little attention is paid to how sound may create a more engaging experience for audiences. To begin addressing this lacuna, we conducted an online experiment to explore how sound infl... Read More about Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits.

What our bodies tell us about noise (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2022). What our bodies tell us about noise. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.689100

Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Not only is noise unwanted, it is expensive and bad for human health. But what sounds like noise to one person might be a happy sound for someone else, so how do we study noise? This article explains how we try to... Read More about What our bodies tell us about noise.

Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters (2021)
Report
Torija Martinez, A., Elliott, A., Harris, L., Podwinska, Z., Welham, C., Nicholls, R., …Williams, D. Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters

• emTransit B.V (Dott) is a European mobility operator currently operating over 30,000 electric scooters in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and now the UK. The company aims to expand its UK operations and has recently won a tender for the Tra... Read More about Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters.

Psychophysiological approaches to sound and music in games (2021)
Book Chapter
Williams, D. (2021). Psychophysiological approaches to sound and music in games. In M. Fritsch, & T. Summers (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music (302-318). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108670289.019

Psychological research investigating sound and music has increasingly been adapted to the evaluation of soundtracking for games, and is now being considered in the development and design stages of some titles. This chapter summarizes the main finding... Read More about Psychophysiological approaches to sound and music in games.

On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Hodge, V., & Wu, C. (2020). On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, 497864. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.497864

Increasingly music has been shown to have both physical and mental health benefits including improvements in cardiovascular health, a link to reduction of cases of dementia in elderly populations, and improvements in markers of general mental well-be... Read More about On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

“Hello Computer, how am I feeling?”, case studies of neural technology to measure emotions (2020)
Book Chapter
Daly, I., & Williams, D. (2020). “Hello Computer, how am I feeling?”, case studies of neural technology to measure emotions. In C. Nam (Ed.), Neuroergonomics (193-219). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34784-0_11

Emotion is a core part of the human experience. Many artistic and creative applications attempt to produce particular emotional experiences, for example, films, games, music, dance, and other visual arts. However, while emotional states are ubiquitou... Read More about “Hello Computer, how am I feeling?”, case studies of neural technology to measure emotions.

Neural correlates of environmental noise soundscapes : an EEG study
Presentation / Conference
Williams, D., Thomas, A., Allen, C., Cox, B., & Clark, C. Neural correlates of environmental noise soundscapes : an EEG study. Presented at 27th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Prague, Czech Republic

Environmental noise has documented effects on productivity in the workplace, and suggested impacts on health and wellbeing. However, there remains a gap in knowledge in determining whether there are neural markers for these effects that might be us... Read More about Neural correlates of environmental noise soundscapes : an EEG study.