ContextSonification

An article, posted more than 21 years ago filed in usability, sound, emma, graduation, sonification, effects, interaction, audio, design, invisible & context.

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

Preface

The 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 s...

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Auditieve Mens-Machine Interactie

An article, posted more than 22 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.

Inleiding

Doelstelling

Met 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 vormgeving

Wanneer 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 ges...

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