A comparison of cross-sensory interactions between Spain and Portugal. The results of a synaesthetic design workshop

• Autor(a) principal: Gambera, David Antonio
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Riccó, Dina, Duarte, Emilia Capucho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/7048
• topic: Synaesthesia; Synaesthe design; Cross-sensory Interaction; Perception; Design; Sinestesia; Design sinestésico; Interações sensoriais cruzadas; Percepção

ABSTRACT : Synaesthesia is the result of automatic processes of human perception that combine sensations of different sensory modalities. Throughout this paper, we are going to present the results of a Synaesthetic Design Workshop, made with design students of IADE, Universidade Europeia (Lisbon, Portugal) and University of Extremadura (Mérida, Spain) with the purpose of identifying different types of crosssensory interactions between participants living in the two countries, that might be influenced by cultural and personal information. On this purpose the choise of Spain as country to have a comparison was driven by the fact that 13,95% of the Spanish population experiences some kind of synaesthesia (Melero, Peña-Melián, & Ríos-Lago, 2015) while in the rest of the world the percentage is around the 4,16% (Simner & Carmichael, 2015). Results suggest probable interactions between modalities with no obvious differences between genders from both the universities.