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<italic>Research into human hearing has been ‘laboratory’ oriented in the sense that the test environments do not replicate most ‘real world’ situations (Middlebrooks &amp; Green, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijom-2009-002_bib10">1991</xref>). It is difficult to see how such tests accurately represent ‘real world’ situations regarding sound source localisation, recognition, and navigation (walking/way-finding) performance. The research reported here was conducted during the development of an audio-based indoor navigation system. The question that arose was what constitutes ‘good’ attractor sounds versus ‘bad’ sounds? A series of physical experiments were developed to identify sounds that performed best from within a group of ‘real-world’ attractor sounds for navigability, localisation, recognition, and likeability. Experiments results were consistent with those of Landau, Wiener, Naghshineh, and Giusti (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijom-2009-002_bib7">2005</xref>)</italic>.</p>
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Research into human hearing has been ‘laboratory’ oriented in the sense that the test environments do not replicate most ‘real world’ situations (Middlebrooks & Green, 1991). It is difficult to see how such tests accurately represent ‘real world’ situations regarding sound source localisation, recognition, and navigation (walking/way-finding) performance. The research reported here was conducted during the development of an audio-based indoor navigation system. The question that arose was what constitutes ‘good’ attractor sounds versus ‘bad’ sounds? A series of physical experiments were developed to identify sounds that performed best from within a group of ‘real-world’ attractor sounds for navigability, localisation, recognition, and likeability. Experiments results were consistent with those of Landau, Wiener, Naghshineh, and Giusti (2005).

Selecting Attractor Sounds for Audio-Based Navigation by People with Vision Impairments

Vision Rehabilitation International

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Research into human hearing has been ‘laboratory’ oriented in the sense that the test environments do not replicate most ‘real world’ situations (Middlebrooks...

Selecting Attractor Sounds for Audio-Based Navigation by People with Vision Impairments

Published Online: Jan 01, 2009

Page range: 8 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijom-2009-002

© 2009 Brad Salisbury et al., published by Sciendo

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