VIRTUAL REALITY - SYNESTHESIA
A VR application to empathize synesthetes (people who have synesthesia — may see sounds) and to use this as learning and memory technique
TYPES OF SYNESTHESIA
•Grapheme-color synaesthesia
• Chromesthesia
•Spatial sequence synaesthesia
•Auditory-tactile synesthesia
•Ordinal linguistic personification
•4% of world population
•15 papers related to synaesthesia was read
•Crossing of senses
•Related to health and fitness
•More Studies need to be done on vr and synaesthesia
Synesthesia
QUESTIONS?
•Causes?
•How it happens?
•How it can be helpful?
•Advanced learning skill?•
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How do synesthets know they have it?
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Are they seeing the world differently?
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Is there anySocial awareness about it?
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Does it value towards society?
•“Try to walk a mile in another person’s shoes.”
•VR allows users to move their perspectives to different scenarios and universes.
•Cause -Genetic
•Needs social awareness about this condition
•How it can be helpful?
•Artistic nature of synesthets
•Empathize
PAIN POINTS
EMPATHIZE
Concepts
MEMORY TECHNIQUE -PEG WORD SYSTEM
NUMBER SHAPE PEG SYSTEM
•Association of numbers with colors and shapes
•Alphabets with colors
•Music with colors
•Used as learning method
MEMORY TECHNIQUE
•How music is seen as colour
•Gives a different perspective
COLOR AND SOUND
ART BY SYNESTHETE ARTIST MELISA MACCAREN, SONG-PRINCE JOY IN REPETITION
TO BE INSIDE AN ART OF A SYNESTHETE