A Weakly Intrusive Ambient Soundscape for Intuitive State Perception

A Weakly Intrusive Ambient Soundscape for Signaling and Intuitive State Perception

A Whisper in the Woods — an Ambient Soundscape for Peripheral Awareness of Remote Processes

The concept of a weakly intrusive ambient soundscape (WISP) is presented as a means to provide a peripheral awareness of processes beyond a user’s immediate attention. The WISP is a component in a larger environment for ubiquitous computing, centered around a conference room scenario. The experiences from a demonstration prototype indicate that the choice of sounds and the intensity of their pr...

A Weakly Intrusive Ambient Soundscape for

Introduction The use of audio cues in computer interfaces has seen a remarkable development in recent years with the general proliferation of soundcards and sound sources. The audio schemes in the Microsoft Windows operating systems, for example, offer the association between a rich set of system events and sounds. The events most commonly encountered are, perhaps, login and logoff events, noti...

Assessment of Soundscape Quality of Naghsh-e-Jahan Square in Isfahan

Sound as a non-visual component of landscape, has a significant impact on individuals perception of space. Because unlike the landscape that seeing and looking is totally an optional action, soundscape regardless of people comes to be heard and understood. Lack of attention to quality of emitted sounds in the environment may leads to problems such as noise pollution, lack of concentration, nois...

ChatAmp: Talking with Music and Text

Current systems for synchronous, text-based communication offer more varied interactions than e-mail, but cannot easily convey non-verbal or emotional information in an unobtrusive and intuitive manner. In this report we introduce ChatAmp, a new chat system which incorporates music as a central part of social interaction. Music is used in order to create an unobtrusive ambient soundscape that g...