Methods for providing audio feedback during the navigation of collections of information
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1. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:
- A) sending said instructions over transmission media;
B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;
C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and
D) executing the instructions;
wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of;
establishing a correlation between a plurality of characteristics and a plurality of audio cues;
navigating an ordered collection of items in response to input from a user;
in response to the user navigating to a particular item, determining a characteristic associated with said particular item; and
playing the audio cue associated with the characteristic of said particular item.
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Abstract
Audio cues often convey different information to users that video cues do not. Audio feedback techniques are provided to convey audio cues about navigable data. Audio cues associated with a collection may indicate a variety of characteristics about items in the collection.
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1. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:
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A) sending said instructions over transmission media;
B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;
C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and
D) executing the instructions;
wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of;
establishing a correlation between a plurality of characteristics and a plurality of audio cues;
navigating an ordered collection of items in response to input from a user;
in response to the user navigating to a particular item, determining a characteristic associated with said particular item; and
playing the audio cue associated with the characteristic of said particular item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19)
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14. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:
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A) sending said instructions over transmission media;
B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;
C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and
D) executing the instructions;
wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of;
accessing a page in a browsing environment;
analyzing a set of elements displayed on the page to determine a characteristic for at least one of the elements in the set of elements;
based on the characteristic, playing an audio cue for the at least one element in the set of elements. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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