ABSTRACT
The previous chapter outlined the psychoacoustic theory behind cyberspatial sound, recapitulated in Figure 13.1, and the idea of audio augmented reality (AAR), including review of its various form factors. Whereware was described as a class of location-and position-aware interfaces, particularly those featuring spatial sound. This chapter considers application domains, interaction styles, and display congurations to
13.1 Introduction and Overview ...........................................................................309 13.2 Applications .................................................................................................. 310
13.2.1 Navigation and Location-Awareness Systems .................................. 311 13.2.2 Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired .................................... 312 13.2.3 Synesthetic Telepresence .................................................................. 313 13.2.4 Security and Scene Analysis ............................................................ 313 13.2.5 Motion Coaching via Sonication .................................................... 314 13.2.6 Situated Games ................................................................................. 314 13.2.7 Entertainment and Spatial Music ..................................................... 314
13.3 Anyware and Awareware .............................................................................. 315 13.3.1 Audio Windowing ............................................................................. 315 13.3.2 Narrowcasting ................................................................................... 315 13.3.3 Multipresence ................................................................................... 317 13.3.4 Layered Soundscapes ........................................................................ 319
13.4 Challenges..................................................................................................... 320 13.4.1 Capture and Synthesis ...................................................................... 321 13.4.2 Performance ...................................................................................... 321 13.4.3 Authoring Standards ......................................................................... 322
13.5 Concluding Remarks .................................................................................... 323 References .............................................................................................................. 324
realize AAR. Utility, professional, and leisure application areas are surveyed, including multimodal augmented reality (AR) interfaces featuring spatial sound. Consideration of ( individual) wearware and (ubicomp) everyware is continued from the previous chapter, in the context of mobile ambient transmedial interfaces that integrate personal and public resources. Two more “…ware” terms are introduced: anyware here refers to multipresence audio windowing interfaces that use narrowcasting to selectively enable composited sources and soundscape layers, and awareware automatically adjusts such narrowcasting, maintaining a model of user receptiveness in order to modulate and distribute privacy and attention across overlaid soundscapes.
