Sound in computing: A short history

Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-65

  Robare, Paul ^a   Forlizzi, Jodi ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PRODUCTS; STANDARD ELEMENTS; WINDOWS - OPERATING SYSTEMS;

STANDARDIZATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 60849131286     PISSN: 10725520     EISSN: 15583449     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1456202.1456218     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. "The Music played by CSIRAC." University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 15 May 2006. .
2. Deatherage, B. H. "Auditory and Other Sensory Forms of Information Presentation." In Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (Revised Edition), edited by H. P. Van Cott and R. G. Kinkade. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.
3. Bly, S. "Presenting Information in Sound." in the Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press, 1982. For a discussion ot the historical significance of Bly's work see Bly, Gaver, and Buxton's unfinished manuscript from 1994, Auditory Interfaces: The Use of Non-Speech Audio at the Interface (http://www.billbuxton.com/Audio.TOC.html).
4. Gaver, W. "The SonicFincler: An Interface that Uses Auditory Icons," Human-Computer Interaction 4, no. 1 (1989). This same issue contained Blattner, Sumikawa, and Greenberg's seminal "Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles," an article by Alistair Edwards describing an interface for blind users, and an introduction by Bill Buxton.
5. Kramer, G., ed. Auditory Display: Bonification, Audification and Auditory Interfaces, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, 557-58. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman, 1994. and Kramer, G. et al. Sonification Report: Status of the Field and Research Agenda. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 1997.
6. Brewster, S. "Non-Speech Auditory Output." In The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications edited by Andrew Sears and Julie A. Jacko. 2d ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007. For an exhaustive survey of research into sound and interfaces prior to the mid-1990s, see Bill Buxton's "Speech, Language & Audition," chap. 8 in Readings in Human Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, edited by R.M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W. Buxton, and S. Greenberg, Morgan Kaufmann: 1995.