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Earcon

Known as: Auditory icon 
An earcon is a brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific event or convey other information. Earcons are a common feature of computer… 
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Auditory display

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Multimodal interaction

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Sonification for Process Monitoring
This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have tackled the problem of monitoring real… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Sonification Abstraite/Sonification Concrète: An 'Aesthetic Perspective Space' for Classifying Auditory Displays in the Ars Musica Domain
This paper discusses aesthetic issues of sonifications and the relationships between sonification (ars informatica) and music… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
SPEARCONS: SPEECH-BASED EARCONS IMPROVE NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE IN AUDITORY MENUS
With shrinking displays and increasing technology use by visually impaired users, it is important to improve usability with non… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Investigation of multi-modal interface features for adaptive automation of a human-robot system
2006
2006
Sonification: a novel approach towards data mining
The field of sonification is a subset of auditory display. It brings together interests from data mining, exploratory data… 
2004
2004
Tailoring reveals information requirements: the case of anaesthesia alarms
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A Detailed Investigation into the Effectiveness of Earcons
A detailed experimental evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Nonvisual presentation of graphical user interfaces: contrasting two approaches
Users who are blind currently have limited access to graphical user interfaces based on MS Windows or X Windows. Past access… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces
An evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles
In this article we examine earcons, which are audio messages used in the user-computer interface to provide information and… 
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