A sonically enhanced interface toolkit

Abstract

Presented at 3rd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, California, November 4-6, 1996.This paper describes an on-going research project investigating the design of a user-interface toolkit composed of sonically enhanced widgets. The motivation for this work is the same that motivated the creation of graphical interface toolkits, which was to simplify their construction, allowing designers who are not experts to create such interfaces; to ensure the sonically enhanced widgets are effective and improve usability; and to ensure the widgets use sound in a clear and consistent way across the interface