Aesthetics and apparent usability: empirically assessing cultural and methodological issues
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
AudioGPS: Spatial Audio Navigation with a Minimal Attention Interface
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Tangible products: redressing the balance between appearance and action
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Lead-me interface for a pulling sensation from hand-held devices
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
ONTRACK: Dynamically adapting music playback to support navigation
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
An Audio-Haptic Interface Concept Based on Depth Information
HAID '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design
On the audio representation of distance for blind users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Audio Bubbles: Employing Non-speech Audio to Support Tourist Wayfinding
HAID '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design
Supporting map-based wayfinding with tactile cues
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
New approaches to intuitive auditory user interfaces
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part I
"I did it my way": moving away from the tyranny of turn-by-turn pedestrian navigation
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Using sound to enhance users' experiences of mobile applications
Proceedings of the 7th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound
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This paper presents work on finding acoustic parameters suitable to convey a sense of difference in geographic distance through the concepts of "near", "middle" and "far". The context for use is a mobile application for navigation services. A set of acoustic parameters was selected based on how sound naturally travels through and is dispersed by the atmosphere. One parameter without direct acoustic connection to distance was also selected. Previous works corroborate the choice of parameters in the context of the project. Results show that modulating multiple parameters simultaneously to express distance gives a more robust experience of difference in distance compared to modulating single parameters. The ecological parameters low-pass filter and reverb gave the test's subjects the most reliable and consistent experience of difference in distance. Modulating the parameter pitch alone was seen to be an unreliable method. Combining the pitch parameter with the reverb parameter gave more robust results.