Title:
Musical features modification for less intrusive delivery of popular notification sounds

dc.contributor.author Yang, Jing
dc.contributor.author Roth, Andreas
dc.contributor.corporatename International Community for Auditory Display
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-21T16:18:24Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-21T16:18:24Z
dc.date.issued 2021-06
dc.description Presented at the 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Virtual conference.
dc.description Presented at the 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Virtual conference.
dc.description.abstract Less intrusive information delivery has been a popular research topic for auditory displays. While most research has addressed this issue by creating new notification cues such as rendering ambient soundscapes or modifying background music, we present a novel method to gently deliver artificial notification sounds that have been commonly used in digital devices and for popular applications. We propose to play a notification sound by embedding it into the music that a user is listening to, after changing the musical timbre, amplitude, tempo, and octave of the notification to match these features of the music. To implement this concept, we extend a melody extraction algorithm for notification timbre transfer, and we present a pipeline that algorithmically selects a proper time spot and harmoniously embeds the notification into music. To validate our design concept, we present a user study comparing our method with the standard method of playing notification sounds on digital devices. Through an extensive analysis of 96 tasks performed by 32 participants, we demonstrate that our method can deliver notification sounds in a less intrusive but adequately noticeable manner and is preferred by most participants.
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.21785/icad2021.016
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66322
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.title Musical features modification for less intrusive delivery of popular notification sounds
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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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