2025/07/08 by Iain Emsley · 1 voice
Computer Science · Engineering · Social Sciences · #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction #Smart Cities and Technologies #Water Governance and Infrastructure
paper · doi:10.1177/26349825251341885
openalex publication_date 2025/07/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/09
This article presents the Unheard City project that uses an Android application to read Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi on an app supported data walk through a Connected Autonomous Vehicle testbed. We listen to the sonic aspects of the devices found and apply sonic thinking to determine the socio-ecologies within the area. Sound, either through reading the signal as data or sonification, is used as a technical practice to think about the layers within the street and their relationships, drawing on situational analytics and mixing qualitative and quantitative frames of interpretation. The emergent relations are derived from the heard signals that enable a view of the heard software that enables us to understand the road as an increasingly subdivided and specialised networks. These networks connect both humans and technical layers in subdivided areas of the road. Silences are explored as either redundant architecture, present but no longer required, or obfuscated data leading to the socio-ecology becoming less public. Constraints, such as measuring emissions levels, on the ecologies are also considered. Future work will consider other protocols and signal types to extend the analysis.