After direct manipulation---direct sonification

  • Authors:
  • Mikael Fernström;Caolan McNamara

  • Affiliations:
  • Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland;Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The effectiveness of providing multiple-stream audio to support browsing on a computer was investigated through the iterative development and evaluation of a series of sonic browser prototypes. The data set used was a database containing music. Interactive sonification was provided in conjunction with simplified human--computer interaction sequences. It was investigated to what extent interactive sonification with multiple-stream audio could enhance browsing tasks, compared to interactive sonification with single-stream audio support. It was found that with interactive multiple-stream audio, the ten users could accurately complete the browsing tasks significantly faster than those who had single-stream audio support.