Nurobodi
🎛️ Exploring how sound, light, and mood shape cognitive and emotional experience.
Nurobodi is a long-form research and design project I founded in 2017 to investigate how adaptive audiovisual feedback environments can support mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. It bridges disciplines — affective (emotional) design, sonic interaction, colour perception psychology, and mindfulness — to prototype interactive systems and environments that support heightened awareness and regulate cognitive-emotional states.
In short, Nurobodi’s design principles are not passive — they facilitate interfaces and experiences for emotional and cognitive alignment.
For a summary of the project read below 👇🏼 or,
visit the Nurobodi site here 👈🏼 for a deep dive.
UX Case Studies
🌈 Nurobodi Design Method Areas
Mood-Space Systems
Interactive installations that use sound, light, and ambient feedback to support meditation, rest, or reflection.Empathy Design Studies
UX/UI feedback systems designed for emotionally resonant interaction — focused on how users integrate thinking with feeling.Resonance Research
Investigating non-verbal vocal resonance signals and intuitive UX paradigms using sound and colour to amplify affective understanding.Biometric Research
Combining qualitative participant feedback with quantitative biometric data (e.g. EEG) to deepen insights into user experience
📊 User Research/Case Study Formats
Immersive Analysis and Wellbeing Sessions
Participant Analysis Interviews
Mixed-Methods Evaluation (EEG + Interview)
Iterative Testing Environments
🧘 Immersive Analysis & Wellbeing Sessions
🎤 Post-Analysis Session Interviews
Combining 🧠 Quantitative (EEG) and Qualitative 👥 (Interview) User Research
🔁 Iterative Testing
Nurobodi’s Mission
At its core, Nurobodi is about resonance research and design — creating affective feedback systems that respond to the user’s mood, attention, and presence. It explores how colour, sound, light, and pattern influence states of consciousness and emotional regulation, particularly in UX contexts focused on self-awareness, rest, or reflection. Here as some reflections of Nurobodi sound/light experience participants reflecting on Nurobodi’s design approach.
🧠 Research Context & Collaborations
RMIT University & CSIRO: Research into ethical AI and embodied empathy design; developed a chatbot prototype (AMBER) focused on ethical decision-making literacy. 👉🏼 Amber Project
Ci2017 Fellowship and Arteles Finland Project: Supported cross-cultural research exploring immersive environmentally focused performance art in Finland and Bangladesh. 👉🏼 AUG ORG Project
Community Activations: Digital Wellbeing and educational collaborations with:
Swinburne University
PAUSE Fest
Arteles Creative Center (Finland)
Knox City Council
RMIT, CSIRO
Autumn Retreat Wellness Centre
Mind Body Spirit Festival
🫂 Empathy Education Design for the future
Nurobodi is playing an increasingly significant role consulting and developing educational content focused on preparing audiovisual and interactive designers for increasingly immersive digital experience platforms. Central to Nurobodi’s education focus are the links between colour, pitch and emotions as foundations for developing true empathy important for relationships, soft skills in the workplace and also crucial for design ethics in fully immersive audiovisual environments.