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A Framework to Support the Designers of Haptic, Visual and Auditory Displays. |
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Dr. Keith V. Nesbitt Charles Sturt University Bathurst, Australia |
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When designing multi-sensory displays of abstract data, the designer must decide which attributes of the data should be mapped to each sense. Because each sense can perceive a number of properties the designer must make further decisions about which of the properties perceived by each sense to use in the mapping.
However, the multi-sensory design space is large and complex and issues with sensory bias and sensory conflict can complicate the design process. Furthermore designers would also like to compare and contrast designs that use different haptic, sound and visual properties. Unfortunately this is difficult without a common framework for describing the perceived properties of each sense. This lack of common grounding also makes it difficult for designers to move between sensory modalities. For example, a designer of visual displays is required to learn new concepts if they wish to become proficient with haptic or sound displays.
This talk will describe a classification of abstract data displays, that is general for all senses. Called the MS-Taxonomy, the classification uses specialization-generalization and aggregation to define a hierarchical framework with multiple levels of abstraction. In software engineering terms the taxonomy allows a designer to consider mappings at both an abstract architectural level and also at a more detailed component level. At the higher levels, design mappings can be discussed independently of the sensory modality to be used. This allows the same fundamental design to be implemented for each sense and subsequently compared or for data mappings to be interchanged between senses.
The MS-Taxonomy provides a useful division of the multi-sensory design space which can be used to structure the design process or to index a collection of design guidelines. This talk describes the MS-Taxonomy and also provides examples of a design process (MS-Process) and some guidelines (MS-Guidelines) that have been based on this taxonomy. The example guidelines focus on the design of haptic displays.
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