Death by beep? Bad sound design costs lives (and how to fix it)
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Michael Schutz |
TEDxMcMasterU
• February 2021
Doctors and nurses rely on an array of medical devices. Unfortunately, the poorly designed "beeps" in these machines are so annoying they lead to confusion, delay patient recovery, and even contribute to deaths. Despite high interest in improving these alarms, surprisingly little attention has been given to the sounds themselves. For the next generation of machines, why not look to sounds used all the world over…the sounds used in music?