From: spf@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm)
Subject: Re: Audio in Interface
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:08:33 GMT

From article <1992Sep29.180153.25651@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, by montefus@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco):
> Hi Net!
> I'd like to have some information (or pointers) about the subject SOUND and
> its uses in HCI. I'd like to know also if this group has an archive to look
> into, and if anybody remembers if this subject has been discussed before.
> 
> Please e-mail me the answers, since I can only access USENET groups once in
> while (a couple of times per month).
> 
> Thanks very much in advance,
> 
> Diego Montefusco
> montefus@ghost.dsi.unimi.it

Diego,
  There is a small but growing group of researchers exploring the use of
sound to represent quantitative data (NOT alarms and cues, but data displays).
There is a mailing list, which I'll mail you some info about if you'll remind
me by sending me some email.  In the meantime, here's a somewhat outdated list
of references that I periodically distribute.

And please feel free to email me for any other info you may need!

Steve Frysinger

                                      References

          Bly, S., Frysinger, S. P., Lunney, D., Mansur, D. L., Mezrich, J.
             J., Morrison, R.C. (1985).  Panel: Communicating with Sound.  In
             L. Borman and W. Curtis (Ed.), Human Factors in Computing
             Systems - Proceedings of CHI'85 (pp. 115-119).  New York, New
             York: Association of Computing Machinery.
          Bly, S., Frysinger, S. P., Lunney, D., Mansur, D. L., Mezrich, J.
             J., Morrison, R.C. (1987).  Communication with Sound.  In R.
             Baecker & W. A. S. Buxton (Eds.), Readings in Human-Computer
             Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach (pp. 420-424).  Los
             Altos: Morgan Kaufmann.
          Bly, S. (1982).  Sound and Computer Information Presentation.
             Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California,
             Davis.
          Chambers, J. M., Mathews, M. V., & Moore, F. R. (1974).  Auditory
             Data Inspection (Technical Memorandum 74-1214-20).  Murray Hill,
             NJ: AT&T Bell Laboratories.
          Frysinger, S.P. (1988).  Pattern Recognition in Auditory Data
             Representation.  Unpublished thesis, Stevens Institute of
             Technology.
          Frysinger, S.P. (1990).  Applied Research in Auditory Data
             Representation.  In E. J. Farrell (Chair), Extracting Meaning
             From Complex Data - Proceedings of the SPIE/SPSE Symposium on
             Electronic Imaging".
          Gaver, W. W. (1986).  Auditory Icons: Using Sound in Computer
             Interfaces.  Human-Computer Interaction, 2, 167-177.
          Mansur, D. L. (1984).  Graphs in Sound: A Numerical Data Analysis
             Method for the Blind.  Unpublished master's thesis, University
             of California, Davis.
          Mezrich, J. J., Frysinger, S. P., & Slivjanovski, R. (1984).
             Dynamic Representation of Multivariate Time-series Data.
             Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79, 34-40.
          Pollack, I. & Ficks, L. (1954).  Information of Elementary
             Multidimensional Auditory Displays.  Journal of the Acoustical
             Society of America, 26, 155-158.
          Speeth, S. D. (1961).  Seismometer Sounds.  Journal of the
             Acoustical Society of America, 33, 909-916.
          Yeung, E. S. (1980).  Pattern Recognition by Audio Representation
             of Multivariate Analytical Data.  Analytical Chemistry, 52,
             1120-1123.