Priscilla Chueng - CHI2002 Student Poster - Paper

Minimal Ecological Sound Design: the Issue of Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments

This paper presents a new sound-based approach for providing an effective sense of presence in virtual environments. Instead of reproducing realistic sounds, our technique is based on finding minimal sound objects and sound events. We present the results from a user study of people’s sound expectations in different physical spaces. Expectation and discrimination are identified as two important ...

Minimal Ecological Sound Design for a Sense of Presence in Digital Virtual Environments

Virtual reality is one of the ways that designers and game programmers are seeking to change the way user's experience digital technology. This paper detailed a minimal approach for providing an effective sense of presence in digital virtual environments. Instead of reproducing realistic sounds, we are finding minimal sound objects and sound events. The user studies of people’s imagination of s...

Designing Auditory Spaces to Support Sense of Place: The Role of Expectation

This paper reviews current approaches to designing virtual environments and investigates aspects of influence in designing auditory spaces to support novel forms of interaction in virtual places. Initial research on human imagined sounds from places has identified ‘expectation’ as an important psychological construct, which must be considered when designing sounds for virtual places. The resear...

[Charles A. Ferguson Prize for Best Student Paper or Poster] Communities of Practice in Sociolinguisitc Description: African American Women's Language in Appalachia

Users Experience in Virtual Spaces

This paper investigates aspects in designing auditory spaces to support novel forms of interaction in virtual spaces. Initial research on human imagined sounds from places has identified ‘expectation’ as an important psychological construct. Second study shows that there are differences between sounds people expect to hear in places and sounds recorded from real life places. Instead of designin...