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loudSPIRE, an auditory display schema for the SPIRE system
loudSPIRE, an auditory display schema for the SPIRE system
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LoPresti, Eric
Harris, W. Michelle
Harris, W. Michelle
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SPIRE is a system for visualizing large amounts of document-based information. Auditory display was identified as a way to supplement SPIRE's existing visual interface; however, the diversity of data did not lend itself to a single sonification method. Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a schema that organizes the auditory display into layers so that multiple sonification methods can be used without sacrificing intuitiveness and usability. This paper describes the design motivations underlying the schema, gives examples of constituent data-to-sound mappings, and describes a prototype implementation named "loudSPIRE." Keywords: auditory display, information visualization, document analysis, sonification, multimedia
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1996-11
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