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Auditory Distance Presentation in an Urban Augmented Reality Environment

Published: 18 March 2015 Publication History

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Presenting points of interest in the environment by means of audio augmented reality offers benefits compared with traditional visual augmented reality and map-based approaches. However, presentation of distant virtual sound sources is problematic. This study looks at combining well-known auditory distance cues to convey the distance of points of interest. The results indicate that although the provided cues are intuitively mapped to relatively short distances, users can with only little training learn to map these cues to larger distances.

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cover image ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception  Volume 12, Issue 2
April 2015
58 pages
ISSN:1544-3558
EISSN:1544-3965
DOI:10.1145/2746686
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Published: 18 March 2015
Accepted: 01 December 2014
Revised: 01 December 2014
Received: 01 August 2014
Published in TAP Volume 12, Issue 2

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  1. Auditory display
  2. distance perception
  3. localization
  4. spatial sound

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  • (2017)Augmented reality and pedestrian navigation through its implementation in m-learning and e-learningComputers & Education10.1016/j.compedu.2017.04.003111:C(1-17)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2017

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