The Season 1 winners of 2021 MUSE Design Awards was announced on April 20, among which a product named “Echo Headset” designed by a research team of Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU) was honored as the Gold Winner in the Product Design category. The award-winning team is represented by Associate Professor Li Liquan who specializes in industrial design and Professor Huo Yuda who specializes in environmental perception, and the other team members are Prof. Liu Shengyuan, Associate Prof. Liu Mo and Prof. Du Haibin from College of Creative Design.

The Gold Winner certificate presented by MUSE Awards jurors [Photo provided to Party Affairs Committee Publicity Office]

Echo Headset is a device that integrates industrial design and environmental perception by applying built-in intelligent sound-activated sensors. Through the data analysis of environmental perception, the headset aims to help the user hear relevant key external sounds while providing perfect sound quality. The user can input key information in advance in the exclusive APP of Echo Headset, such as the user’s name and nickname, or record and upload key sounds like car whistle or bike bell, so that Echo Headset can intelligently filter and select sounds through the built-in intelligent sound-activated sensor and then switch to the key external sounds in real time.

The award-winning product “Echo Headset” [Photo provided to Party Affairs Committee Publicity Office]

In order to extend the application of Echo Headset and provide convenient services for a large number of users who take public transportation, the research team is trying to integrate the bus and metro report system in Shenzhen to the product. In the future, in-depth research on this product will be extended to the design of environment perception state for the blind, so as to provide them with voice guidance and coordinate information for navigation.

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Launched by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the International Awards Associate (IAA), the Muse Awards Program consists of several parts such as MUSE Creative Awards and MUSE Design Awards, which aims to evaluate and select outstanding creations in various fields across different countries and regions. As one of the most influential international awards in the field of creative design, the MUSE Design Awards is held annually to recognize designers and engineers who have outstanding achievements in innovative design.

The 2021 MUSE Design Awards Jury is composed of 42 well-known design professionals from 22 countries around the world. The jurors have blindly evaluated the entries in accordance with strict professional standards and selected the award-winning works among nearly 10,000 entries from 46 countries.

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