ContextSonification

An article, posted more than 20 years ago filed in usability, sound, emma, graduation, sonification, effects, interaction, audio, design & invisible.

ContectSonification is another way of looking to adding sound to your computer environmen. This was my graduation Thesis for the European Media Master of Arts (EMMA) programme PrefaceThe first version of ContextSonifier was created in 2004 by Maarten Brouwers. It was the result of his Master-thesis: 'Context Sonification'. You can download his thesis here or just continue reading it in HTML format.The whole process has been supervised by:: Martin Lacet (thesis), Janine (project), Tom (project) and David Garcia (project) and was first published in Hilversum, August, 2004.When communicating from one human to another, visual, auditory and/or haptic cues are being used for communication. When communicating to another person directly a person communicates more than a plain message. It communicates also a state of being, a soul. Somehow also mechanical devices and environments are able to communicate this 'state of being'. Communicating not only in true/false messages. To…

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Auditieve Mens-Machine Interactie

An article, posted more than 21 years ago filed in design, thesis, sonification, hti, auditory interaction, audio, interfaces, bachelor, interaction & sound.

Note to English readers: This was my Bachelor Thesis (Interaction Design) on auditory interfaces. Since this text on auditory human technology interaction is in Dutch, you might be interested in my other text on this matter written in english (and more up to date too), it's title is context sonifier.InleidingDoelstellingMet dit document tracht ik zo'n breed mogelijk licht te werpen op de ontwikkelingen en mogelijkheden omtrent auditieve ondersteuning van een mens-machine interface. Het primaire doel is om een beter inzicht te krijgen in hoe een visuele interface uitgebreid kan worden met auditieve elementen. Mogelijk vloeien hier nieuwe ideen uit.Uniforme auditieve vormgevingWanneer men kijkt naar de bestaande richtlijnen voor dergelijke interfaces, als Microsoft Windows, Apple OS-X, KDE, dan valt het op dat er weinig tot geen aandacht wordt geschonken aan voorschriften die leiden tot een meer uniforme auditieve vormgeving van het systeem.ToepassingsgebiedDe toevoe…

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