Group 3: Hearing and the synapse destruction

At first we reviewed the presentation we had the other day. We concluded that we were not concrete about our analogy with the Moog and the view on the ageing employees.

So today, we discussed about how to be concrete and how to do a specific presentation that looks at the subject on the biological ageing of human.

The first topic that was brought up was about the five senses and our competences to realize the presentation. The touch and taste is the hardest senses to do any concrete presentation about. The first suggestion was to do a program that created a filter that simulates a human hearing that deteriorate because of age. The program would play a soundclip and the user could change the parameters in the GUI so they could hear how the hearing changes because of the age. We actually went to TMH to talk about how the hearing changed when aging.

We tried to come up with alternative ideas. The next topic was to do a graphic visualisation of synapses losing contact to the nerve cells when the human gets old. We tried to do a research so the facts would be correct. After researching we found out that the course of events was not as dramatic as we hoped.

We finally asked Antonio Scarponi about how realistic our presentations should be. He answered that we are storytellers that can make up diagrams and stories. So we agreed that we could present both the synapses visualisation-project and the sound-simulation.