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