1. Auditory Interfaces map to event in computer sound new mail mail sent
windows startup
windows shutdown

2. Design the map from event to sound
Choose the events
- type of event, ok, error, …
- Choose sounds
- speech, non speech
- non speech
- beeps
- earcons
- auditory icons

3. Earcons

5. Musical listening: the perception of the sound:
- pitch, loudness, dynamics, timbre, register
Everyday listening: the perception of the source:
- auditory event perception
- interaction, force, size, material, location, environment

6. What in the world do we hear?
configurations of materials interacting in an environment
perceptible dimensions and attributes of sources

8. Auditory Icons
Interface events maps to sounds by analogy to everyday
sound-producing events.
- e.g. selecting – tapping, copying - filling

10. Dragging a file to the trashcan
select object

11. drag object

12. drag the object over the trashcan

13. release the object