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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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2014
2014
Synchronized walking cadence for TUG in perturbed environments: Using Earcon or Tacton cues?
Audio and haptic cueing have proven their usability to assist gait for patients with Parkinson's disease. These cueings are used… 
2011
2011
Product-Awareness through Smart Audio Navigation in a Retail Environment
In this paper, we introduce a method to make personalized music freely selectable for each customer in a retail environment… 
2010
2010
Audification-based Electronic Travel Aid system
Aiming at the popularization and the application flaw in the existing Electronic Travel Aid (ETA) system, a model of intelligent… 
2007
2007
Localization in a Head-Related Transfer Function-based virtual audio synthesis using additional high-pass and low-pass filtering of sound sources
Listening tests were carried out for investigating the localization judgments of untrained subjects through equalized headphones… 
2007
2007
THE APPLICATION OF A METHOD FOR INTEGRATING NON-SPEECH AUDIO INTO HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES
This paper describes the application of a structured method for integrating non-speech sound into graphical interfaces. The… 
2007
2007
Localization in a HRTF-based Minimum-Audible-Angle Listening test for GUIB applications
Listening tests were carried out for investigating the localization judgments of 40 untrained subjects through equalized… 
2004
2004
The influence on performance of using different amounts of contextual audio
paper we describe a multimodal focus and context system. The focus was represented by a visual display and the context by audio… 
2002
2002
Working hard in the 'office': an ethnomethodological study of on-line workshops
This paper demonstrates the usefulness of ethnomethodology as a perspective for studying CSCL, with excerpts and findings from a… 
1998
1998
An Investigation of Auditory Icons and Brake Response Times in a Commercial Truck-Cab Environment
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Parallel earcons: reducing the length of audio messages
This paper describes a method of presenting structured audio messages, earcons, in parallel so that they take less time to play… 
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