The Sonic Mapper is an interactive Linux-based graphical program that affords increased methodological flexibility and sophistication to researchers who collect proximity data for auditory research. The Sonic Mapper consists of a mapping environment in which participants can position and group icons in the two-dimensional plane of the screen. Options for collecting data concerning hierarchical ...

A variety of electronic sonic toys is available in the market. However, such toys are usually played by pushing buttons which trigger different sampled sounds. In this paper we advocate the possibility of using continuous natural gestures connected with synthesized sounds for the creation of enactive sonic toys. Keywords— sonic toys, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interaction

This paper describes the design, implementation and outcome of Ground Me!, an interactive sound installation set up in the Sonic Lab of the Sonic Arts Research Centre. The site-specific interactive installation consists of multiple copper poles hanging from the Sonic Lab’s ceiling panels, which trigger samples of electricity sounds when grounded through the visitor's’ body to the space’s metall...

This paper reports on extensions of the Description Logics non-standard inference system Sonic. The recent contributions to the system are two-fold. Firstly, Sonic is extended by two new of non-standard inferences, namely, implementations of the good common subsumer w.r.t. a background terminology and a heuristics for computing a minimal rewriting. Secondly, Sonic is available as a plugin for t...

This paper presents the SONIC reconfigurable computing architecture and the first implementation, SONIC-1. SONIC is designed to support the software plug-in methodology to accelerate video image processing applications. SONIC differs from other architectures through the use of Plug-In Processing Elements (PIPEs) and the Application Programmer’s Interface (API). Each PIPE contains a reconfigurab...

Hedgehog genes have been implicated in inductive signaling during development in a variety of organisms. A key element of the hedgehog signaling system is encoded by the gene patched. In Drosophila hedgehog regulates gene expression by antagonizing the action of patched. In addition, patched is itself a transcriptional target of hedgehog signaling. We have isolated a chicken patched homolog and...

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) monitors infrasound in the Netherlands with a series of microbarometer arrays. Infrasound is inaudible sound; its lower frequency cut-off is limited by the thickness of the atmosphere. The KNMI has developed a microbarometer capable of measuring infrasound between 500 seconds and 40 Hz. Wind noise reduction is of major concern in infrasound ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the root surface roughness after instrumentation with hand curette and diamond-coated sonic and universal ultrasonic tips. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty root surfaces of human teeth were randomly assigned to four treatment groups: control group (without instrumentation), curette instrumentation, ultrasonic instrumentation with universal tip an...

College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware 700 Pilottown Road, Lewes, Delaware 19958 Present address: UT-Houston Medical School. Laboratory for Neuroendocrinology, P.O. Box 20708, Houston, Texas 77225 Abstract.-Male weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, were collected from the southwest portion ofDelaware Bay from April through September in 1990 and 1991. Morphometric measurements ofthe sonic mus...