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AUDITORY ICONS IN LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

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William W. Gaver,

Randall B. SmithAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Volume 23, Issue 1

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https://doi.org/10.1145/122672.1048010

Published: 01 January 1991 Publication History

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We discuss the potential for auditory icons to address several common problems in large-scale, multiprocessing, and collaborative systems. These problems include those of confirming user-initiated actions, providing information about ongoing processes or system states, providing adequate navigational information, and signalling the existence and activity of other users who may be working in a part of the system that is not visible. We provide several examples of useful auditory icons drawn from a large, shared, multitasking environment called SharedARK, and discuss their implications for other systems.

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 23, Issue 1

Jan. 1991

90 pages

ISSN:0736-6906

DOI:10.1145/122672

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Bill Hefley
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

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