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I. Enter the reference information about the article

Authors (first name, middle initials, last name; if more than one then separated by semicolons):

Title of the article:

Conference or journal name:
(if ICAD, then leave it unchanged, otherwise type over):

Year of publication:

URL for the paper if it is online.
(e
x. http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/icad2001/proceedings/papers/walker_b.pdf)

II. Code the article based on the following questions. If the question is not relevant for the article, leave it blank.

Provide the following information about the auditory display discussed in the article:

Indicate the type of auditory display discussed in the article.
Interface (e.g. GUI, auditory icons)
Data
Alarms
Other

What type of task is the display used for?
Real-time monitoring/Awareness
Exploration
Pattern recognition and matching
Extracting detailed information
Spatial (Navigation/Location)
Alerting
Active feedback on actions
Other

What type of situation would the task be conducted in?
Desktop - office, control room
Cabin - cockpit, car, train
Mobile - on the street, up a pole, underwater
Other

Was the paper discussing a display specifically developed for the visually impaired?
Yes   No   N/A

Was there a specific context for the auditory display discussed in the paper?
High attentional load
Eyes busy
Temporally Sensitive (temporal patterns or short events)
In parallel with another auditory display
As a background display
Supplementing a
      visual display
      tactile display
      vocal display
      text display
      Other      

What was the duration of use for the auditory display?
Continuous
Short episodes
Any duration
Other

If the Auditory Display is a Sonification, provide the following information about what was sonified:

The data type:
Discrete
Continuous

Boolean (2 different categories; e.g. yes or no)
Nominal (difference without order; e.g. banana, apple orange)
Ordinal (difference and order; difference, order and a natural zero; difference order, central zero)
Interval (difference, order and metric; e.g. Celsius temperature scale)
Ratio (difference, order, metric and natural zero)
Time Series

Unknown
None (No data are involved)
Other

The kind of information that was sonified:
Descriptive information on variables (mean, standard deviation, etc.)
          Number of variables

Relationships
         2D    3D    Multi-D  Tree (hierarchical)
Categories, objects, individual items
          
Other

The size of the data set:
Small   Medium    Large    Any

The part of the data set that was sonified:
Part of data set - specifically, if a data set has several variables and only one or two of those variables was sonified (i.e. of a data set on weather, when only the rain data needs to be sonified) 
Individual elements - if one element of a data set was sonified (i.e. in a time series data set, when a particular value is reached)
Entire data set
Not Applicable

If there is a corresponding visual graph for the data:
No
Pie graph
Line graph
Histogram
Scatterplot
Box plot
Bar graph

Time Series
Diagram
Other

The specific task domain, if any (e.g. gas exploration, stock market, surgical planning)

This section is for summarizing the information from this paper that would be helpful for auditory display designers.

Key design principles and/or recommendations for auditory display designers. If there is no clear recommendation, you may want to put part of the abstract or conclusions in this section.

How clear are the recommendations from the paper?
    
not at all clear          very clear

What type of paper is it?
Experimental (Paper reporting the results of an experimental study)
Review (Paper reviewing and summarizing the results of related papers)
Case study (Paper reporting on a single case)
Demonstration (Paper discussing a new technology or sonification methodology)
Theoretical
Other

What approach was used with the auditory display?
Semiotic (Relating to signs or symbols)
Syntactic (Structurally ordered sounds)
Semantic (Sounds with different meanings)
Perceptual (Display design explicitly structured around perceptual attributes)
Analogic (isomorphic mapping between changes in sound and changes in data)
Metaphoric (A sound dimension conceived as representing a concept)
Other

What equipment is required for the auditory display?
Computer sound card
Outboard music hardware
Custom system
Other

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