Sodnik, Jaka.

Spatial Auditory Human-Computer Interfaces [electronic resource] / by Jaka Sodnik, Sašo Tomažič. - 1st ed. 2015. - VIII, 79 p. 14 illus. online resource. - SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, 2191-5768 . - SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, .

Introduction -- Spatial sound -- Auditory interfaces -- Spatial Auditory interfaces.

This book focuses on a special group of auditory interfaces using spatial sound for the representation of information. The addition of information on the location of a selected sound source or a group of sources shows many advantages over a mere single-channel audio. This survey explains the most important limitations of the human hearing system and the perception of spatial sound. It also includes some technical background and basic processing and programming techniques for the creation and reproduction of spatial sounds with different audio equipment. Spatial auditory interfaces have evolved significantly in the last couple of years and can be found in a variety of environments where visual communication is obstructed or completely blocked by other activities, such as walking, driving, flying, operating multimodal virtual displays, etc. An entire chapter of this survey is dedicated to the most important areas of spatial auditory displays: mobile devices and computers, virtual environments, aircrafts and vehicles, visually impaired and blind computers users, and brain-computer interfaces.

9783319221113

10.1007/978-3-319-22111-3 doi


Computer science.
User interfaces (Computer systems).
Computer Science.
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

QA76.9.U83 QA76.9.H85

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