Title:
An investigation into customisable automatically generated auditory route overviews for pre-navigation

dc.contributor.author Aziz, Nida
dc.contributor.author Stockman, Tony
dc.contributor.author Stewart, Rebecca
dc.contributor.corporatename International Community for Auditory Display
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-25T19:19:50Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-25T19:19:50Z
dc.date.issued 2019-06
dc.description Presented at the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019) 23-27 June 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
dc.description Presented at the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019) 23-27 June 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
dc.description.abstract While travelling to new places, maps are often used to determine the specifics of the route to follow. This helps prepare for the journey by forming a cognitive model of the route in our minds. However, the process is predominantly visual and thus inaccessible to people who are either blind or visually impaired (BVI) or doing an activity where their eyes are otherwise engaged. This work explores effective methods of generating route overviews, which can create a similar cognitive model as visual routes, using audio. The overviews thus generated can help users plan their journey according to their preferences and prepare for it in advance. This paper explores usefulness and usability of auditory routes overviews for the BVI and draws design implications for such a system following a 2-stage study with audio and sound designers and users.The findings underline that auditory route overviews are an important tool that can assist BVI users to make more informed travel choices. A properly designed auditory display might contain an integration of different sonification methods and interaction and customisation capabilities. Findings also show that such a system would benefit from the application of a participatory design approach.
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.21785/icad2019.029
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61507
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.publisher.original International Community on Auditory Display
dc.publisher.original International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD)
dc.relation.ispartofseries International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
dc.rights Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject Auditory display
dc.subject Navigation
dc.title An investigation into customisable automatically generated auditory route overviews for pre-navigation
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
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local.contributor.corporatename Sonification Lab
local.relation.ispartofseries International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
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