A Psychoacoustic Auditory Display for Navigation

Abstract

A psychoacoustic auditory display for navigation in twodimensional space is presented. The auditory display is examined in an experiment with novice users. Trajectory analysis indicates that users were able to a) accurately find sonified targets b) analyze the sonification axis-by-axis c) integrate the sonified dimensions to approach the target on the shortest path. Techniques developed in this work appear to work equally well with three-dimensional coordinates.