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From: sharp@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Audio feedback from GUI's
Keywords: sound windows widgets
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.232649.20442@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 19 Jun 91 23:26:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.171211.2716@cs.umn.edu> <31228@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun12.202741.16629@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun12.215523.7379@cs.umn.edu>
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     There has been other work done for aural feedback in interfaces.
Some of the most succesful was done for the US Air Force. They found
that binaural sounds that came from particular places in the cockpit
were very useful for providing pilot feedback. I seem to remember a
slurping sound from under the seat for low fuel.

     The 3D sound technology used is now becoming affordable. You can
already get some software/hardware for 3D sound a Macintosh.

     The bottom line seems to be, the sound feedback is good in
specific tasks. To design general aural feedback would be like trying
to design a generic word processor. Most people would only use a
limited amount of the functionality. Worse, a lot of people would hate
the feedback, or think of the feedback as something else.

	maurice

Maurice Sharp MSc. Student (403) 220 7690
University of Calgary Computer Science Department
2500 University Drive N.W.	      sharp@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4	      GEnie M.SHARP5


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Maurice Sharp MSc. Student (403) 220 7690
University of Calgary Computer Science Department
2500 University Drive N.W.	      sharp@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4	      GEnie M.SHARP5