Diary in the sky: A spatial audio display for a mobile calendar                                

Ashley Walker, Stephen Brewster,                     
David McGookin and Adrian Ng

Glasgow Interactive Systems Group,
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4966,
Email: stephen@dcs.gla.ac.uk,
Web: www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen


We present a spatial audio display technique that overcomes the 
presentation rate bottleneck of traditional monaural audio displays. 
Our compact speech display works by encoding message semantics 
into the acoustic spatialisation. In user testing, this display facilitated 
better recall of events than a conventional small screen visual display. 
Moreover, results showed that this mapping aided in the recall of the 
absolute position of events as opposed to merely their relative 
orders in a temporally ordered data set.           


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