The Voice Pump: an Affectively Engaging Interface for Changing Attachments

In this paper, we present the preliminary results from an ongoing interaction design experiment, the Voice Pump. The Voice Pump is an affectively engaging air-based interface for attuning to the differential qualities of voices in order to change attachments between native Danish speakers and non-native Danish speakers, in particular refugees coming to the country. We present the outset for the design process, the current version of the design, the technical setup for the air-based sound processing and how we plan to continue our explorations in the future.