Resound

Resound July 2023 - June 2025

electronics, software, rtd, ethnography, openlab

Building on Caroline Claisse's autoethnographic work in a Buddhist community responding to the COVID pandemic, we propose an alternative techno-spiritual practice of remote chanting, mediated through a connected Research Product, our Resound sphere. The sphere contains a speaker, microphone, and WiFi-connected microcontroller, capable of abstractly reproducing the frequency of the chants from remote community members.

The Resound Sphere: Co-Exploring Alternatives for Community Remote Practice of Faith (2025). Sara Wolf, David Chatting, Ben Morris, Caroline Claisse and Abigail C. Durrant. Proceedings of the 23rd EUSSET Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. DOI: 10.48340/ecscw2025_pd01

Pace Layers and Research Products (2025). David Chatting, Caroline Claisse, Sara Wolf, Ben Morris and Abigail C. Durrant. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). DOI: 10.57711/fh0j-2m12

Resound: A Moment of Reflection in a Techno-Spiritual RtD (2025). Caroline Claisse, David Chatting, Sara Wolf, Ben Morris and Abigail C. Durrant. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '25). DOI: 10.1145/3689050.3704422

Making Alternatives through Design for Mediated Spiritual Practice (2024). Caroline Claisse, David Chatting, Sara Wolf, Ben Morris and Abigail C. Durrant. Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium. DOI: 10.1145/3686169.3686190

Seeking Resonances for Remote Communal Chanting Practices (2023). David Chatting, Ben Morris, Caroline Claisse and Abigail C. Durrant. Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) 2023. DOI: 10.57711/467e-rr16