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Earcon
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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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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Sonification for Process Monitoring
Paul Vickers
2011
Corpus ID: 31675957
This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have tackled the problem of monitoring real…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Sonification Abstraite/Sonification Concrète: An 'Aesthetic Perspective Space' for Classifying Auditory Displays in the Ars Musica Domain
Paul Vickers
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Bennett Hogg
ArXiv
2006
Corpus ID: 9034101
This paper discusses aesthetic issues of sonifications and the relationships between sonification (ars informatica) and music…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
SPEARCONS: SPEECH-BASED EARCONS IMPROVE NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE IN AUDITORY MENUS
B. Walker
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A. Nance
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Jeffrey Lindsay
2006
Corpus ID: 17715174
With shrinking displays and increasing technology use by visually impaired users, it is important to improve usability with non…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Investigation of multi-modal interface features for adaptive automation of a human-robot system
D. Kaber
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M. Wright
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Mohamed A. Sheik-Nainar
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
2006
Corpus ID: 1912039
2006
2006
Sonification: a novel approach towards data mining
Z. Halim
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R. Baig
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S. Bashir
International Conference on Emerging Technologies
2006
Corpus ID: 17157428
The field of sonification is a subset of auditory display. It brings together interests from data mining, exploratory data…
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2004
2004
Tailoring reveals information requirements: the case of anaesthesia alarms
M. Watson
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P. Sanderson
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W. J. Russell
Interacting with computers
2004
Corpus ID: 16658566
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A Detailed Investigation into the Effectiveness of Earcons
S. Brewster
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Peter C. Wright
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A. Edwards
1997
Corpus ID: 16330510
A detailed experimental evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating…
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Nonvisual presentation of graphical user interfaces: contrasting two approaches
Elizabeth D. Mynatt
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G. Weber
International Conference on Human Factors in…
1994
Corpus ID: 6349563
Users who are blind currently have limited access to graphical user interfaces based on MS Windows or X Windows. Past access…
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces
S. Brewster
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Peter C. Wright
,
A. Edwards
INTERCHI
1993
Corpus ID: 1387183
An evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles
M. Blattner
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D. Sumikawa
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R. Greenberg
Hum. Comput. Interact.
1989
Corpus ID: 40132734
In this article we examine earcons, which are audio messages used in the user-computer interface to provide information and…
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