Materials are means to creation in architecture and long been an obsession for architects. The interconnection between sound and architecture has also been lauded in design field (though the relation is less enthralling and constrained). Architects' interviews/narratives highlight these topics. But what about the users? Is there any congruence between designers and users on these attributes?
I am aware of some work by colleagues on user experience and product sounds (René van Egmond & Elif Özkan). Here are some of the references that might be of use:
Paper: Product Sounds: Basic concepts and categories
(http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/1377/649)
Paper: Basic Semantics of Product Sounds
(http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/957/436)
Paper: The effect of (un)pleasant sounds on the visual and overall pleasantness of products
(https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:b9df3f5b-769a-4901-877d-8fda3b614696?collection=research)
Chapter: The Experience of Product Sounds
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978008045089650006X)
I was going through the references above. Thanks for the directions.
There could be very interesting and edge defining works if some of us could cross boundaries. After all design does not belong to any particular discipline (only discipline of sense).
We are so limited in our niche and thus limit the perception and the reality of design...
This book just came into my mind, not entirely related but could be relevant. It is more on behavioural aspects. Tight Spaces; Hard Architecture and How to Humanize It by Robert Sommer.
Juhani Pallasmaa's The Eyes of the Skin, Architecture and the Senses could be an interesting read.
Boudewijn Boon's directions [above] beyond architectural boundary seem to be interesting as well.
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