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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: sonic "icons" (was Cross-linguistic issues in the design of Icons)
Keywords: interfaces, icons, cross-linguistic issues, Spanish
Message-ID: <4796@eos.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 01:46:40 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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If you want audio-icons,
	M. Blattner, Earcons: .*, LLNL, Livermore, CA, TR, 1988.
The sensory memory associated with hearing is called the "echo."
The term "audicon" also sticks in my LTM.  We gave a seminar on Earcons
in May 1988 associated with reactor control.

Another gross generalization from

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