Living with the sound of the past: experiencing sonic atomic interaction using the sound diary

Authors:
Hanif Baharin;Ralf Mühlberger
Affiliations:
The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia;The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new interaction paradigm, atomic interaction, that aims at creating and maintaining contact without the transmission of content beyond the fact that an interaction is occurring. Atomic interactions can be represented using sound, which we term sonic atomic interaction. Since this is a new application of sonification, a prototype called the Sound Diary was created to simulate sonic atomic interaction for a pilot trial study. The experience of living with the Sound Diary is described in this paper from the first author point of view. The lessons learned from the experience are discussed in the light of previous literature. It was found that auditory icons can be easily confused for environmental sounds, and that dead metaphor sound may reduce confusion and startled reactions if auditory icons are to be used in unattended devices.