Browsing International Conference on Auditory Display, 2004 by Issue Date
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Geometric shape detection with soundview
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)We present the results of user studies that were performed on sighted people to test their ability to detect simple shapes with SoundView. SoundView is an experimental vision substitution system for the blind. Visual images ... -
Auditory display of hyperspectral colon tissue images using vocal synthesis models
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)The human ability to recognize, identify and compare sounds based on their approximation of particular vowels provides an intuitive, easily learned representation for complex data. We describe implementations of vocal tract ... -
The interaction between head-tracker latency, source duration, and response time in the localization of virtual sound sources
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)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 position and the the time the display changes its ... -
Soundstudio4D - A VR interface for gestural composition of spatial soundscapes
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)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 software interface has taken place in a ... -
The audio abacus: Representing a wide range of values with accuracy and precision
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)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 analogy of an abacus. As this is an entirely ... -
The design and evaluation of auditory access to spreadsheets
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)This project is concerned with the development and evaluation of an integrated approach to sound-based access to spreadsheets. The primary target user population is visually impaired users, employing speech-based screen ... -
Towards enhancing earthquake response interpretation using sonification
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)In this paper, we select the application domain of earthquake engineering for utility of sonification, where signals are of random frequency and amplitude content. In particular, we focus on the response of structures to ... -
Analytic listening: A case study of radio production
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)Radio is the ultimate auditory display: all information is conveyed aurally to a listener. Sound from a radio invokes visual images in the imagination of a listener, the theatre of the mind. Listening to a radio voice ... -
Interacting with sound: An interaction paradigm for virtual auditory worlds
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)The visual and the auditory field of perception respond on different input signals from our environment. Thus, interacting with worlds solely trough sound is a very challenging task. This paper discusses methods and ... -
Designing sound: Towards a system for designing audio interfaces using timbre spaces
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)The creation of audio interfaces is currently hampered by the difficulty of designing sounds for them. This paper presents a novel system for generating and manipulating non-speech sounds. The system is designed to generate ... -
Individual differences, cognitive abilities, and the interpretation of auditory graphs
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)Auditory graphs exploit pattern recognition in the auditory system, but questions remain about the relationship between cognitive abilities, demographics, and sonification interpretation. Subjects completed a magnitude ... -
How long does it take to identify everyday sounds
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)Previous studies of alarm design have concluded that the faster a mental representation of the cause of the alarm is activated, the quicker the adapted reaction. In order to select sounds that are quick to identify, an ... -
A generic semantically based design approach for spatial auditory computer displays
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)This paper describes a design approach for creating generic computer user interfaces with spatial auditory displays. It proposes a structured depiction process from formulating mode independent descriptions of user interfaces ... -
Auditory versus visual spatial impression: A study of two auditoria
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)Spatial impression refers to the attributes of subjective space beyond localization. In the field of auditorium acoustics, auditory spatial impression is often divided into `apparent source width', `envelopment' and sometimes ... -
Auditory navigation performance is affected by waypoint capture radius
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)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 important in such devices [e.g. 1]. In this ... -
Designing a generalized sonification environment
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)This paper proposes a design for a generalized sonification environment (``SonEnvir'') that aims to be flexible, easily extensible, and practically useful for researchers from many scientific domains (target fields) that ... -
Auditory feedback of human EEG for direct brain-computer communication
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)The Thought-Translation-Device (TTD) is a Brain-Computer- Interface (BCI) that enables completely paralyzed patients to communicate by the use of their brain signals only. Selfregulation of brain signals (e.g. the slow ... -
A 16-speaker audio visual display interface and control system
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)This paper details the CHESS system developed at the University of Wollongong. CHESS aims to provide a hardware and software platform for the creation, manipulation and playback of complex three-dimensional sound scenes. ... -
Decoupled loudness and range control for a source located within a small virtual acoustic environment
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)For headphone-based spatial auditory display systems, binaural synthesis of sound localization cues typically use source reproduction level as the primary control for source range. This approach can be quite effective when ... -
Emotionface: Prototype facial expression display of emotion in music
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community for Auditory Display, 2004-07)EmotionFace is a software interface for visually displaying the self-reported emotion expressed by music. Taken in reverse, it can be viewed as a facial expression whose auditory connection or exemplar is the time synchronized, ...