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ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Design of Mixed Use Virtual Auditory Displays: Recent Findings with a Dual-Task Paradigm
In the third of an ongoing series of exploratory sound information display studies, we augmented a dual task with a mixed-use auditory display designed to provide relevant alert i...
Derek P. Brock, James A. Ballas, Janet L. Stroup, ...
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Interaction Between Head-Tracker Latency, Source Duration, and Response Time in the Localization of Virtual Sound Sources
One of the fundamental limitations on the fidelity of interactive virtual audio display systems is the delay that occurs between the time a listener changes his or her head positi...
Douglas Brungart, Brian D. Simpson, Richard L. McK...
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Sonification of Geo-Referenced Data for Auditory Information Seeking: Design Principle and Pilot Study
We present an Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-on-demand) modeled after the visual information seeking mantra [1]. We propose tha...
Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, ...
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Flexible Framework for Real-Time Sonification with Sonart
We describe significant developments towards a real-time implementation of SonArt, the parameter mapping framework first presented in [1] 1 . Enhancements include the incorporatio...
Woon Seung Yeo, Jonathan Berger, R. Scott Wilson
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Aural Maps, Neural Futures
If the mental objects of philosophy, art, and science ... have a place it will be in the deepest synaptic fissures, in the hiatuses, intervals, and mean-times of the non-objectifi...
Meredith Walsh
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Audio Abacus: Representing a Wide Range of Values with Accuracy and Precision
Point estimation is a relatively unexplored facet of sonfication. We present a new computer application, the Audio Abacus, designed to transform numbers into tones following the a...
Bruce N. Walker, Lisa M. Mauney, Justin Godfrey
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Auditory Navigation Performance is Affected by Waypoint Capture Radius
Non-speech audio navigation systems can be very effective mobility aids for persons with either temporary or permanent vision loss. Sound design has certainly been shown to be imp...
Bruce N. Walker, Jeff Lindsay
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Soundstudio 4D: A VR Interface for Gestural Composition of Spatial Soundscapes
We describe a software system which enables computergenerated soundscapes to be synthesised, spatialised and edited using a gestural interface. Iterative design and testing of the...
James Sheridan, Gaurav Sood, Thomas Jacob, Henry G...
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Sound Design to Enhance Presence in Photorealistic Virtual Reality
The role of soundscape design to enhance the sense of presence in virtual reality is discussed and tested. Preliminary results which compare real versus virtual soundscapes are re...
Stefania Serafin, Giovanni Serafin