Title:

The Perceptual, Cognitive, and Engineering Aspects of Creating Auditory Displays for Human Users

Speaker:

Dr. Bruce Walker

Affiliation:

School of Psychology and the School of Interactive of Computing at Georgia Tech

When:

Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

Love Building, Room 183

Host:

Shaun Anderson
sanderson49@gatech.edu

Abstract

Dr. Bruce Walker plans to talk about the perceptual, cognitive, and engineering aspects of creating auditory displays for human users. Dr. Walker will point out that we need to understand the human user (the bio + acoustics, as it were), in order to create auditory displays and sonifications that are perceptible, comprehensible, and useful. I will talk about various application domains, ranging from formal education (e.g., math, science classes), to informal education environments (e.g., zoos, museums), to high-performance system monitoring (e.g., process control, cockpits).

The plan is to be quite informal, a few examples, and have plenty of discussion.

Biography

Dr. Bruce Walker is an Associate Professor with joint appointments in the School of Psychology and the School of Interactive of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, he is a member of Georgia Tech's HCI faculty, as well as the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center. Dr. Bruce Walker coordinates the Psychology Track in the GT Masters Program in HCI (MS-HCI). He completed Ph.D. at Rice University (2001) in Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction. His dissertation was entitled Magnitude Estimation of Conceptual Data Dimensions for Use in Sonification. http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/

Notes

Refreshments will be served.