Presenting Information in Sound

摘要

As the use of computers increases, the need for a variety of alternative of interacting with computers also increases. Computer-generated sound is one capability not being fully utilized in the computer/human interface. Just as an x-y plot reveals relationships in data, sound might also reveal relationships in data. This report focuses on the potential for using computer generated sounds to present data information. The first section addresses multivariate data problems which might be aided by sound output. The second describes experiments performed to determine whether listners can discriminate among data sets based on sound. The final section discusses ongoing work and future directions. (ERA citation 07:048962)