Lucia Frattini

Born and raised in Varese, she studied at the Politecnico di Milano since 2011. She graduated in Industrial Design and in October 2014 she started the course to obtain the Master’s Degree in Product Design for Innovation at the same University. His interest is multidisciplinary design: it ranges from the design of the furniture to the design of the accessory with a look that goes beyond the design of the product and also looks at its communication.

Fonica. A system for vocal imprints recognition in shared environments.

New technologies and devices that populate our lives are becoming the founding element of people’s daily lives. Physical and virtual interfaces have become the new ‘assistants’ of man and this relationship opens up new fields of reflection for design. Initially focusing on the importance of human voice and the technology that man has developed by studying it, this thesis has born out of the will to fully exploit the enormous potential that sound recognition of an individual’s voice imprint can offer. This feature is one of those uniqueness that distinguishes the individual person and can become a declinatory tool in the most varied contexts. One of its most important requirements is that monitoring an acoustic signal of an environment can recognize an individual among many. This feature becomes interesting if designed in high density environments and where it is imperative to minimize the risks.