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Multi-user interaction in virtual audio spaces

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Audio guides are a common way to provide museum visitors with an opportunity for personalized, self-paced information retrieval. However, this personalization conflicts with some of the reasons many people go to museums, i.e., to socialize, to be with friends, and to discuss the exhibit as they experience it [1]. We developed an interactive museum experience based on audio augmented reality that lets the visitor interact with a virtual spatial audio soundscape. In this paper, we present some new interaction metaphors we use in the design of this audio space, as well as some techniques to generate a group experience within audio spaces.

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CHI EA '09: CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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  1. augmented reality
  2. mobile computing
  3. museum
  4. spatial audio

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