Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in Auditory Display.
- Audio Augmented Reality (Audio AR, Augmented Audio Reality, Audio-Augmented Environment)
- The overlay of digital sound — synthesised speech, music, earcons, or spatialised audio cues — onto a user's perception of their real or virtual environment. Audio augmented reality can be head-worn (…
- Audio Desktop (Auditory Desktop, Non-Visual Desktop)
- An audio desktop is a logical workspace that provides the functionality of a graphical electronic desktop entirely through auditory interaction, including speech output, auditory icons, and audio-form…
- Audiophotography (Audiophotograph, Audio Photograph, Sound Photograph)
- A medium proposed by Frohlich and Tallyn in which a photograph is packaged together with an associated audio recording — typically ambient sound captured at the moment of the shutter, a spoken caption…
- Aural Interaction (Auditory Interaction)
- Aural interaction refers to human-computer interaction that takes place primarily through the auditory channel, encompassing both speech-based input/output and non-speech audio such as auditory icons,…
- Conversational Gesture (Interaction Gesture, Dialogue Primitive)
- A conversational gesture is an atomic building block of human-computer dialogue — a simple, well-defined interaction pattern that enables communication between user and machine. In graphical user inte…
- Functional Colour (Functional Color)
- Functional colour is a design technique for auditory interfaces where visual colour distinctions are replaced with alternative identifiers — typically numbers or mnemonic labels — that convey the same…
- Non-Speech Audio (Non-Verbal Audio, Non-Speech Sound)
- Auditory output that conveys information through sounds other than spoken words — for example tones, clicks, earcons, auditory icons, musical motifs, or vowel-like timbres. Non-speech audio is widely …
- Radial Direction (Angular Direction, Heading, Bearing (audio display))
- In auditory-display research, a data value that represents a direction in a plane — for example a compass bearing, the tangent of a curve, or the orientation of a pointer — treated as an angle rather …
- Spatialization (Spatialisation, Audio Spatialization, 3D Audio Spatialization)
- The process of rendering a sound so that it appears to originate from a specific location in three-dimensional space around the listener. Spatialization typically combines head-related transfer functi…
- Speech Output (Auditory Feedback, Spoken Feedback)
- Speech output refers to the use of synthesised or pre-recorded human voice to convey information from a computer system or device to a user. In accessibility contexts, speech output is a primary means…
- Vocal Source Identity
- Vocal Source Identity is an auditory display principle referring to the use of different speaking voices or sound sources to convey distinct types of information in an audio interface. In the context …