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From: kirlik@chmsr.gatech.edu (Alex Kirlik)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Audio feedback from GUI's
Keywords: sound windows widgets
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Date: 12 Jun 91 18:00:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.171211.2716@cs.umn.edu>
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In article <1991Jun12.171211.2716@cs.umn.edu> brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes:
>I've been toying with the idea of adding audio feedback to a graphical
>user interface.  Something subtle, to make it MORE intuitive.
>
>Any thoughts on this, folks?  Are there any examples of this sort of
>thing?

Much of what you discuss is implemented in Bill Gaver's Sonic Finder
for the Macintosh.  He's currently at EuroPARC, and had a couple of 
papers on such things at the most recent CHI conference.  Perhaps
someone could assist with more precise references.  

Alex 

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