ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a combination of sight and sound to make sense of our world, what is most clearly missing in interface designs is an adequate inclusion of audition. Inclusion of features which integrate sound into interface designs as well as their underlying architectures will provide promising opportunities. The accumulated work of nearly 20 years in computer science—focused on everything from memory architecture to programming languages—can potentially be brought to bear on complexity crisis. There is a massive field of computer science research, sometimes called “Human-Centered Computing”, which allocates billions annually to a wide range of problems that cluster around the periphery of this crisis. Marshall McLuhan’s contribution to the study of the environmental character of media is a particularly important guidepost in understanding the transitions in human sensory bias. Humans make sense of the world with their biologically evolved sensory integrators.
