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16>project two:Eye Speakby Lewis MoberlyA project that develops a visual languageto facilitate non-verbal communicationin noisy environments, using a hand-heldcommunications device.Clubs are places of fun and social liberationwhere the environment is enhanced bythe music and the atmosphere – but the keypleasurable ingredient of communicationcan be hampered by the very elements thatmake such leisure venues enjoyable. Noise
can drown out speech and crowded spacescan leave body language open to misinterpretation.Lewis Moberly looked at how universalpictograms could be developed into a visuallanguage to facilitate non-verbal communicationin noisy environments, using acommunications device to transmit thesymbols.User inputHearing-impaired and wheelchair users.User issues‘When I approach a ticket counter and theyhave a glass panel, I can’t understand whatthey are saying. Sometimes the loop systemis not working.’Caroline Appleby, Hearing Concern‘Whatever you come up with needs to bevery cool and very slick.’Matt Brown‘There are a lot of deaf people out therewho want to speak to hearing people butthey are too shy.’Troi Lee, organiser Deaf Raves17
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