[Web4lib] Text~Tone(sm): Auditory Highlighting/Rating of Text (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Hill, Holly K Ms CIV USA IMCOM]

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The color one was beyond strange. The haptic one went way over that
border into WTF territory. Now auditory? This has to be a joke, right?
Were these postings just delayed from April? This is scholarship now?
Has publish or perish reached its limit?

Just colour me perplexed.


Holly Hill
holly.k.hill at us.army.mil
Barr Memorial Library; Directorate of Family, Morale, Welfare, and
Recreation
Fort Knox, KY     502-624-5351 

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Subject: [Web4lib] Text~Tone(sm): Auditory Highlighting/Rating of Text

Friends/

Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of
Color, Nor Haptic 

Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiModal Minds 

Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology
That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degrees
of Sound.

SOUND
Wikipedia:Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or
gas; particularly, sound means those vibrations composed of frequencies
capable of being detected by ears.

Using Other/Related Audio/Auditory Technologies Readers Would be Able To
Hear That Range of Tones Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus And/Or
Substitute And/Or Supplement An Author's Audio/Auditory Layer

Such Tones Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR
Denote Relative Importance. 

THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really. Nearly A Decade Ago I Began
to Explore Auditory Browsing Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases:

_The NextWAVe(sm)_

Thoughts About The Proposal? Please Comment on The Posting At 

[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/20-08/06/texttonesm.html ]

OR

[ http://tinyurl.com/53vmxn ]

BTW: A Link to _The NextWAve(sm)_ is Also Available ...

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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