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Few studies explore the aesthetic experiences and appreciation of artefacts of deafblind people using cochlear implant (CI) technology, and how they interpret and express their perceived aesthetic experience through another sensory modality. While speech recognition is studied extensively in this area, the aspect of auditive descriptions made by CI users are a less-studied domain. This present research intervention describes and analyses five different deafblind people sharing their interpretation of five statues vocally, using sounds and written descriptions based on their haptic explorations. The participants found new and multimodal ways of expressing their experiences, as well as re-experiencing them through technological aids. We also found that the CI users modify technology to better suit their personal needs. We conclude that CI technology in combination with self-made sound descriptions enhance memorization of haptic art experiences that can be re-called by the recording of the sound descriptions. This research expands the idea of auditive descriptions, and encourages user-produced descriptions as artistic supports to traditional linguistic, audio descriptions. These can be used to create personal auditive\u2013haptic memory collections similar to how sighted create photo albums.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/mti2020024","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,11]],"date-time":"2018-05-11T03:42:48Z","timestamp":1526010168000},"page":"24","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Sound Descriptions of Haptic Experiences of Art Work by Deafblind Cochlear Implant Users"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Riitta","family":"Lahtinen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ISE Research Group, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4729-2317","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Camilla","family":"Groth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Fashion\/Textile Futures Research Group, Department of Design, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, 00560 Helsinki, Finland"}]},{"given":"Russ","family":"Palmer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ISE Research Group, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Pallasmaa, J. 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