PINs, passwords and human memory

Wendy Moncur and Dr Grégory Leplâtre provide an introduction to some of the problems relating to memory and the ability of the human to recall passwords

PINs, passwords and human memory

Wendy Moncur and Dr Grégory Leplâtre provide an introduction to some of the problems relating to memory and the ability of the human to recall passwords

The design and evaluation of non-speech sounds to support navigation in restricted display devices

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Using

non-speech sounds to improve interaction with telephone-based interface

An investigation of using music to provide navigation cues.

This paper describes an experiment that investigates new principles for representing hierarchical menus suchas telephone-based interface menus, with non-speech audio. A hierarchy of 25 nodes with a sound for eachnode was used. The sounds were designed to test the efficiency of using specific features of a musicallanguage to provide navigation cues. Participants (half musicians and half non-musicians) were asked toidentify the position of the sounds in the hierarchy. The overall recall rate of 86% suggests that syntacticfeatures of a musical language of representation can be used as meaningful navigation cues. More generally,these results show that the specific meaning of musical motives can be used to provide ways to navigate in ahierarchical structure such as telephone-based interfaces menu

Sketching Concatenative Synthesis: Searching for Audiovisual Isomorphism in Reduced Modes

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Perspectives on the Design of Musical Auditory Interfaces

This paper addresses the issue of music as a communication medium in auditory humancomputer interfaces. So far, psychoacoustics has had a great influence on the development of auditory interfaces, directly and through music cognition. We suggest that a better understanding of the processes involved in the perception of actual musical excerpts should allow musical auditory interface designers to exploit the communicative potential of music. In this respect, we argue that the real advantage of music as a communication medium relies on the richness of its specifically musical meanings rather than on its formal structure. Finally, we propose a method for automating the design of musical auditory interfaces, in order to make this design possible to non-musician designers