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Acoustic Form: Enhancing the Design Process for Assistive Earwear Jewelry via Material-Centric Computational Sound Analysis
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Acoustic Form: Enhancing the Design Process for Assistive Earwear Jewelry via Material-Centric Computational Sound Analysis

Arefeh Ahmadi and Emil Polyak
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Posters, pp 1-2
15 Dec 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3757374.3771471

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Applied computing Applied computing -- Arts and humanities Applied computing -- Arts and humanities -- Sound and music computing Computing methodologies Computing methodologies -- Modeling and simulation Computing methodologies -- Modeling and simulation -- Simulation types and techniques Computing methodologies -- Modeling and simulation -- Simulation types and techniques -- Interactive simulation Hardware Hardware -- Robustness Hardware -- Robustness -- Hardware reliability Hardware -- Robustness -- Hardware reliability -- Signal integrity and noise analysis Human-centered computing Human-centered computing -- Human computer interaction (HCI) Human-centered computing -- Human computer interaction (HCI) -- Interaction techniques Human-centered computing -- Human computer interaction (HCI) -- Interaction techniques -- Auditory feedback Information systems Information systems -- Information retrieval Information systems -- Information retrieval -- Specialized information retrieval Information systems -- Information retrieval -- Specialized information retrieval -- Multimedia and multimodal retrieval Information systems -- Information retrieval -- Specialized information retrieval -- Multimedia and multimodal retrieval -- Music retrieval
This work pioneers the application of computational acoustic simulation to assistive jewelry design for hearing enhancement. While acoustic modeling has been extensively used in traditional hearing aid development and architectural acoustics, its application to jewelry-scale assistive devices represents an unexplored design space. We present the first systematic methodology integrating acoustic simulation into the design process for assistive earwear jewelry, examining how material selection influences sound propagation in our originally designed Green Voice Smart Jewelry Device. Through computational analysis of four jewelry-grade metals—silver, titanium, platinum, and white gold—we demonstrate how acoustic simulation can inform both aesthetic and functional decisions in assistive jewelry design, establishing a new paradigm where computational acoustics guides the creation of hearing assistance devices that users want to wear.

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