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The Internet Chair
A pivot (swivel, rotating) chair is considered as an input/output device, an information appliance. The input modality is orientation tracking, which can dynamically select transfer functions used to spatialize audio in a rotation-invariant soundscape. In groupware situations, like teleconferencing or chat spaces, such orientation tracking can also be used to twist iconic representations of a seated user, avatars in a virtual world, enabling social situation awareness via coupled visual displays, soundscape-stabilized virtual source locations, and direction-dependent projection of non-omnidirectional sources. Using its audio output modality, the system can present unencumbered binaural sound with soundscape stabilization for multichannel sound image localization.
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Design and Control of Shared Conferencing Environments for Audio Telecommunication Using Individually Measured HRTFs
A technique is presented for dynamically invoking a set of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) and scaling gain, driven by a dynamic map in a graphic window. With such an interface, users may configure a virtual conferencing environment, manipulating virtual positions of teleconferees. The design of a personal headphone teleconferencing prototype is proposed, integrating spatialized sound presentation with individualized HRTF measurement using a bifunctional transducer. According to judgment tests, the use of individualized HRTFs instead of dummy-head HRTFs can reduce front-back sound image confusion.
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Virtual Gain for Audio Windows
Audio windowing is a front-end, or user interface, to an audio system with a real-time spatial sound back end. Complementing directionalization by a digital signal processor (DSP), gain adjustment is used to control the volume of the various mixels ([sound] mixing elements). Virtual gain can be synthesized from components derived from collective iconic size, mutual distance, orientation and directivity, and selectively enabled according to room-wise partitioning of sources across sinks. This paper describes a derivation of virtual gain, and outlines the deployment of these expressions in an audio windowing system.
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Cognitive Processing and Hypermedia Comprehension: A Preliminary Synthesis