A bimodal computer interface for exploration-based learning of structural dynamics
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Hong Kong Papers in Design and Development, v.1, 1998, pp. 8-13
Abstract
The formulation of a bimodal computer interface for communicating structural dynamic behaviour of buildings within an interactive exploration-based learning framework is presented. This interface is specifically tailored to meet the visualization needs of students of architecture and engineering studying structural dynamics at an introductory level. The synchronized use of non-speech audio and visual cues is highly useful in conveying complex time-varying multi-dimensional data that characterizes the dynamic structural behaviour of buildings. A bimodal interface enables a greater breadth of information to be conveyed than would be possible in a typical unimodal interface, thereby making possible a more holistic depiction of structural dynamic behaviour. This provides less advanced students of structural dynamics more opportunities for meaningful parameter studies and sensitivity analysis.
(1) Introduction
(2) Data conveyed through the interface
(3) Auditory representation of structural data
(a) Perceptual properties of sound used
(b) Representing dynamic loading with sound
(c) Representing structural system properties with sound
(d) Representing structural response with sound
(e) Auditory streams
(f) Auditory segregation
(4) The bimodal interface
(a) Sensory integration
(b) Conveying redundant and supplementary information
(c) Time scaling
(d) Interactive exploration
(e) Selective audio-visual streaming
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1998
Language
en