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Using music to communicate computing information

✍ Scribed by Paul Vickers; James L Alty

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
330 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0953-5438

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✦ Synopsis

The audio channel remains little used in most computing applications, often its use being relegated to providing trivial sound effects whose novelty value soon wears off. Nevertheless, in principle sound offers much to the process of human±computer interaction as for most people the notion of auditory imagery is easily accepted.

In this paper we explore how sound, speci®cally musical sound, can be used to communicate computing information. The ®ndings of two studies are presented. The ®rst investigated how pitch intervals and musical phrases of complex (non-sinusoidal) tones can be recognised. The second study aimed to demonstrate that musical structures could communicate information about high-level programming language structures and program run-time behaviour. Both studies showed that music could successfully be used as a communication medium and that listeners did not need to be musically trained to bene®t from the audio signals. Finally, recommendations for further work are made.

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