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From: kwb@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Keith Blackwell)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Informative Audio was Re: Audio feedback from GUI's
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Date: 28 Jun 91 19:31:06 GMT
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			E A R C O N S

This thread reminds me of a report I read in one of Lawrence Livermore Lab's
annual publications from about '85 or '86.  Some group there was researching
the use of what they called "earcons".  Earcon is the obvious name for an
auditory analog to an icon (eye-con).  Their earcons were short tonal
sequences whose structures (pitch-and-waveshape sequences) were organized
such that similar messages had similar earcons.  Of course, this type
of application is for a pre-determined set of common messages, such as
system error, warning, and status messages.  It doesn't address the idea
of using sound to analyze arbitrary data.

--
Keith Blackwell		(my employer has nothing to do with this)