Auditory Display

Sound support for collaboration

by William Gaver

3D AUDIO AS AN INFORMATION-ENVIRONMENT: MANIPULATING PERCEPTUAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR DIFFERENTIATION AND PRE-SELECTION.

by peter lennox

Co-authored with Tony Myatt and John Vaughan. in Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Auditory Display, Espoo, Finland, July 29-August 1, 2001

Contemporary use of sound as artificial information display is
rudimentary, with little 'depth of significance'... more Contemporary use of sound as artificial information display is
rudimentary, with little 'depth of significance' to facilitate users'
selective attention. We believe that this is due to conceptual
neglect of 'context' or perceptual background information. This
paper describes a systematic approach to developing 3D audio
information environments that utilise known cognitive
characteristics, in order to promote rapidity and ease of use. The
key concepts are perceptual space, perceptual significance,
ambience labelling information and cartoonification.

Designing in-vehicle technologies for older drivers: Application of sensory-cognitive interaction theory

by Carryl Baldwin

Audio-haptic internet browser and associated tools for blind and visually impaired computer users

by Patrick Roth

Graphics and user's exploration via simple sonics (GUESS): Providing interrelational representation of objects in a non-visual environment

by Patrick Roth

AB-Web: Active audio browser for visually impaired and blind users

by Patrick Roth

A comparison of three nonvisual methods for presenting scientific graphs

by Patrick Roth

Auditory browser for blind and visually impaired users

by Patrick Roth

From Dots to Shapes: an auditory haptic game platform for teaching geometry to blind pupils

by Patrick Roth

Wayfinding, Ships, and Augmented Reality (2004)

by Michael May

Michael May: "Wayfinding, Ships, and Augmented Reality", draft of paper published in: Peter Bøgh Andersen & Lars Qvortrup (Eds): Virtual applications: applications with virtual inhabited 3D worlds. Springer 2004.

Touching the Void: Gestures for Auditory Interfaces

by Raphael Grasset

Katrin Wolf, Christina Dicke, Raphael Grasset.
In Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 2011), p.305-308, 2011.

Simulator Sickness in Mobile Spatial Sound Spaces

by Christina Dicke

Auditory Interfaces for Mobile Devices

by Christina Dicke

Foogue: eyes-free interaction for smartphones

by Christina Dicke

Touching the void: gestures for auditory interfaces

by Christina Dicke

Nowadays, mobile devices provide new possibilities for gesture interaction due to the large range of embedded sensors... more Nowadays, mobile devices provide new possibilities for gesture interaction due to the large range of embedded sensors they have and their physical form factor. In addition, auditory interfaces can now be more easily supported through advanced mobile computing capabilities. Although different types of gesture techniques have been proposed for handheld devices, there is still little knowledge about the acceptability and use of some of these techniques, especially in the context of an auditory interface. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the problem by studying the design space of gestures proposed by end-users for a mobile auditory interface. We discuss the results of this explorative study, in terms of the scope of the gestures proposed, the tangible aspects, and the users’ preferences. This study delivers some initial gestures recommendations for eyes-free auditory interfaces.

Sonification of Emotion State In Family-Run Businesses

by Lars Graugaard

Funded by Danish Center for Design Research

I report on an application that makes use of auditory display of data that represents an individual’s appreciation of... more I report on an application that makes use of auditory display of data that represents an individual’s appreciation of his situation in the specific collaborative context of a family owned company. The auditory display is an emotion mapping of the company-family structure, and thereby transmits the emotional impact of possible future scenarios if no intervention takes place. The structural parameters ‘family complexity’, ‘company complexity’, ‘company structure’ and ‘structural risk’ are mapped to structural aspects of the auditory display that contain sufficient similarity to be readily appreciable with minimal preparation. The result is that the implicit emotional state of the analysis subject – a member of the family – is represented in the audio stream. This facilitates other family members’ empathy, because it circumvents subjective semantic interpretations and potential rejection of a purely verbal interpretation of the data. The technique is general and may be applied to other collaborative situations where a self-learning approach is preferred.

DepThrow: a Physics-Based Audio Game

by Stefano Papetti

Sensitivity to Visual and Auditory Stimuli in Children with Developmental Dyslexia

by Dorothy Faulkner

Authors:
King, Bernardine1 Bernardine.King@cem.dur.ac.uk
Wood, Clare2
Faulkner, Dorothy1
Source:
Dyslexia (10769242); May2008, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p116-141, 26p, 5 Diagrams, 9 Charts

This study considered the extent to which 23 children with dyslexia differed from 23 reading age (RA) and 23... more This study considered the extent to which 23 children with dyslexia differed from 23 reading age (RA) and 23 chronological age (CA) matched controls in their ability to make temporal judgements about auditory and visual sequences of stimuli, and in the speed of their reactions to the onsets and offsets of visual and auditory stimuli. The children with dyslexia were slower (p = 0.039) than the CA controls in their reactions to non-verbal auditory onsets (tones), were less able to recognize the first stimulus of a sequence of tones (p = 0.022), and were less accurate in identifying the initial phoneme of a sequence of three (p < 0.001). These characteristics may be manifestations of an impaired temporal processing system for rapid auditory stimuli. CA controls responded more quickly to tone onsets than to tone offsets (p = 0.025), but the dyslexic and RA groups showed no significant difference (p > 0.05) in their reaction times to onsets and offsets of these non-verbal auditory stimuli. Dyslexic readers showed impairment compared with CA controls in responding to the last of a sequence of three non-verbal visual stimuli (shapes), p = 0.02. Reaction times in the visual and auditory onset and offset tasks were richly intercorrelated in the control groups, but the dyslexic group did not show as many significant correlations in reaction times between the auditory and visual domains, or between the onset and offset RTs within each modality. These results suggest that there may be a less integrated cross-modal and intra-modal temporal system in children with dyslexia than in controls. In many of the measures in this study, the performance of the dyslexic group resembled that of the RA control group but differed from CA controls, which implies a developmental delay. The possibility that such a cognitive delay may be related to an underlying neurological disorder is discussed.