Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!manyjars!mnkonar From: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SonicFinder Wanted Message-ID: <32916@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 23:13:57 GMT References: <16473@brunix.UUCP> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: mnkonar@src.honeywell.com (Murat N. Konar) Organization: ipd Lines: 26 In article <16473@brunix.UUCP> sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes: >An article by William W. Gaver in HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (1989, volume >4, pp. 67-94) describes an auditory finder for the Mac called the >SonicFinder. According to the article, this finder received limited >distribution within Apple, but Gaver is no longer there. I would very much >like to get a copy of this finder, if it's possible. If you know of any >way (FTP, email, floppy, etc.) that I could get a copy of the SonicFinder, >I would appreciate it if you'd let me know. Please send responses by >email, because I do not read this newsgroup. I am also interested in this. I saw a video of the SonicFinder at a talk given here by SRC alumnus S. Joy Mountford, now Head of Human Interfaces at Apple (not her exact title, I'm sure) and it looked (sounded!) really cool. The trash can clanked when you threw something away, selecting a file would cause a clicking sound whose pitch was proportional to the size of the file! Dragging files resulted in a scraping sound (what feedback this was supposed to give the user other than enhancing the direct manipulation illusion I don't know), and the scroll bars made a clicking sound that changed in pitch depending on which way you were scrolling. ____________________________________________________________________ Have a day. :^| Murat N. Konar Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)