Morphocons: A new sonification concept based on morphological earcons

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 409-418

  Parseihian, Gaëtan ^a   Katz, Brian F G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; CONCEPT-BASED; EARCONS; END USERS; NAVIGATION AIDS; NAVIGATION DEVICES; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; SONIFICATIONS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

NAVIGATION;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84865998649     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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