When bugs sing

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 793-819

  Vickers, Paul ^a   Alty, James L ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory display; Auralisation; Debugging; HCI; Music; Pascal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MUSIC; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PASCAL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

AUDITORY DISPLAY;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 0036890881     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(02)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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