A Spatial Hypermedia Tool to Support the Collection and Organisation of Audio Knowledge

Digital libraries allow users to access large amounts of organised audio information. Users of these libraries are able to collect required information, that is then stored and organised for later use. A useful feature of some digital libraries is the ability to create personal spaces within the library where users may collect and organise their information in an appropriate way for them. Some of these personal spaces allow users to organise their information spatially. A difficulty with spatial organisation is that as the amount of information grows, users may become visually overloaded, and the ability to re-find information becomes slower and more error-prone. To overcome this, this paper proposes a tool that allows users to organise their audio collections spatially using audio cues to reduce the effects of visual overload.