A BRIEF OVERVIEW THE AUDITORY PERSPECTIVE OF INTERFACES

Simon Liu | wliu080 | INTRODUCTION Fairly new field of research Has roots in various disciplines Strong background in providing for the visually impaired Focus of my research report Audio Cues Exploratory Data Analysis Some forms of models/frameworks Figure 1. Related Fields

Simon Liu | wliu080 | AUDIO CUES Auditory Icons Based on natural sounds Should make sense Earcons Generated non-contextual sounds Use in auditory displays

Simon Liu | wliu080 | AUDIO CUES - SPEARCONS Fairly new area of audio cues “Speeding up a spoken phrase until it is not recognized as speech” Language-dependent Similar output from text-to-speech applications (e.g, JAWS) Example from GATech Sonification Lab: link

Simon Liu | wliu080 | EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS Sonifications aid exploration of analysis Branches of study: Perceptibility and comprehension of sonifications Models for mapping data to sound Lack of research into models & frameworks Saue’s temporal exploratory sonification model Temporalization ‘Walking’ metaphor

Simon Liu | wliu080 | MODELS & FRAMEWORKS Models Repertory Grid Similarity Rating/Scaling Ear-witness Accounts Styles of Frameworks TaDA (Task and Data Analysis) Narrative Sound Artefacts Pattern-Based

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