Situational Awareness

Context:

You are designing an auditory display which needs to keep a user aware of activities and events in the local or remote environment.

Problem:

Without appropriate support, the user is not likely to perceive and understand all the relevant environmental activity.

Forces:

It can be hard to keep track of simultaneous activities.
Whenever something new happens in the environment, the user will need to know what has happened, and will probably need to know the extent of the event.

Solution:

Sonify the local or remote environment. The relevant aspects of the environment should each be mapped to sonic information channels.

Rationale:

Sonifications can be perceived during varying levels of attention. Multiple events and phenomena can be perceived via a user?s ability to maintain awareness of parallel sound streams.

For Example:

M䫥l䬠K., Hakulinen, J. and Turunen, M. ?The Use Of Walking Sounds In Supporting Awareness?, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD 2003, Boston, July 6-9, 2003.
- [Paper: http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2003/paper/35%20Makela.pdf]
Schmandt, C. and Vallejo, G. ??Listenin? To Domestic Environments From Remote Locations?, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD 2003, Boston, July 6-9, 2003.
- [Paper: http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2003/paper/54%20Schmandt.pdf]
Kazem, M., Noyes, J. and Lieven, N. ?Design Considerations for a Background Auditory Display to Aid Pilot Situation Awareness.?, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD 2003, Boston, July 6-9, 2003.
- [Paper: http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2003/paper/22%20Kazem.pdf]

CategorySound