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Reflections on sonic browsing: Comments on Fernström and McNamara, ICAD 1998

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ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), Volume 2, Issue 4

Pages 500 - 504

https://doi.org/10.1145/1101530.1101549

Published: 01 October 2005 Publication History

Abstract

In the original Fernström and McNamara paper at ICAD 1998, we described our work on a novel user interface for sonic browsing of music collections. In this commentary, we reflect upon the continued research in this area and how our interactive sonification approach has come to be used also for browsing collections of everyday sounds and for perception experiments.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1520340.1520465

Reflections on sonic browsing: Comments on Fernström and McNamara, ICAD 1998
1. Applied computing
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2. Human-centered computing

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ACM Transactions on Applied Perception Volume 2, Issue 4

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DOI:10.1145/1101530

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Heise SHlatky MLoviscach JOlsen DHinckley KMorris MHudson SGreenberg S(2009)Aurally and visually enhanced audio search with soundtorchCHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1520340.1520465(3241-3246)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2009
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