Notes

The Audible Web (2)

Audio feedback in web-browser enabled to:

Monitor data transfer process
Provide feedback for user actions
Provide content feedback to aid navigation

Sound useful for monitoring time-variant processes:

Normal data transference: 'clicks and pops' occur
Error conditions: breaking glass
Opening of external programs: sliding sound

Feedback for users:

(Sounds reinforce metaphor/affordances of GUI objects)
Button: 'Ca-Click'
Select menu item: 'Click'
Scroll up/down: short pop
Select a link: Bop-Bop

(These sounds are part of the Apple Macintosh™ sound environment)

Navigational aids:

Provides extra information regarding probable data type and size:
Relative Transfer time: (right mouse) 'tick-tock' duration
File size: piano notes
Server down: breaking glass
Text file : typewriter
Graphics file: camera click
Video file: 16mm movie projector
Audio file: piano signature
Data file: modem speaker noise

 

 

 


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