Sonus is an app that celebrates social networking as an embodied and emergent user experience based on primary research with the visually impaired community.

Enjoy the presence and perspective of others

To listen to the audio note, the user simply walks towards its fixed location and the recording automatically plays as spatialized audio.

https://vimeo.com/blakeshae/sonus-audio-note-listen

Capture the moment with one's voice

To record an audio note, an individual user simply presses on the central button.Up to four users can record a single audio note if they are within 3 ft. of one another. In these instances, the recording will spatialize each of the users voice so that others may inhabit that conversation.

https://vimeo.com/blakeshae/sonus-audio-note-creation

Filter surroundings by topics

In spaces that are denser, the user can initiate a spatial filter according to topics discussed in the Audio Note recordings.This feature is available to the system due to the app's NLP abilities.

https://vimeo.com/blakeshae/sonus-spatial-filter

Access details about a recorded Audio Note

Users are able to tap an individual audio note and be presented with its metadata, such as the User who posted the Audio Note(s), and the number of plays and responses.

https://vimeo.com/blakeshae/sonus-audio-note-details