Strategies for Auditory Display of Social Media. Issue 1 (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Winters, R. Michael; Joshi, Neel; Cutrell, Edward; Morris, Meredith Ringel
• Other Names: Jeon Myounghoon guest-editor.; Walker Bruce N. guest-editor.; Barrass Stephen guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Ergonomics in design. Volume 27:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 11
• Page End: 15
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: interface design -- controls and displays -- music -- images -- universal design -- aging -- children -- accommodation -- auditory -- media -- cultural effects -- environment -- culture; Human engineering -- Periodicals; 620.8205
• DOI: 10.1177/1064804618788098
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1064-8046

Abstract

Social media is an overwhelmingly visual medium, and we ask the simple question: How can the data and images of social media posts be transformed into something as meaningful and vivid in the auditory sense? Such a design would be useful for eyes-free browsing and could enhance the existing visual media. Our strategy first uses artificial intelligence systems to transform low-level input data into high-level sociocultural features. These features are then conveyed using a multifactored temporal design that uses speech, sonification, auditory scenes, and music.