Dr. Bruce Walker

School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, MS-0170, 654 Cherry Street, Atlanta, GA 30332-0170, United States of America.
Tel: +1 404 894 8265
Email: bruce.walker@psych.gatech.edu

Current projects

A System for Wearable Audio Navigation Integrating Advanced Localization and Auditory Display

Publications

Davison, B. & Walker, B. N. (2007) Sonification Sandbox reconstruction: software standard for auditory graphs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2007), Montreal, Canada, 26-29 June 2007, 509-512.

Mauney, L. M. & Walker, B. N. (2007) Individual differences and the field of auditory display: past research, a present study, and an agenda for the future. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2007), Montreal, Canada, 26-29 June 2007, 386-390.

Palladino, D. & Walker, B. N. (2007) Learning rates for auditory menus enhanced with spearcons versus earcons. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2007), Montreal, Canada, 26-29 June 2007, 274-279.

Walker, B. N., Kim, J. & Pendse, A. (2007) Musical soundscapes for an accessible aquarium: bringing dynamic exhibits to the visually impaired. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2007), Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-30 August 2007.

Walker, B. N., Stanley, R. M., Przekwas, A., Tan, X. G., Chen, Z. J., Yang, H. W., Wilkerson, P., Harrand, V., Chancey, C. & Houtsma, A. J. M. (2007) High fidelity modeling and experimental evaluation of binaural bone conduction communication devices. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2007), Madrid, Spain, 2-7 September 2007.

Wilson, J., Walker, B. N., Lindsay, J., Cambias, C. & Dellaert, F. (2007) SWAN: system for wearable audio navigation. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2007), Boston, USA, 11-13 October 2007.

Stanley, R. M. & Walker, B. N. (2006) Lateralizaton of sounds using bone-conduction headsets. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES2006), San Francisco, USA, 16-20 October 2006, 1571-1575.

Walker, B. N. & Kramer, G. (2006) Auditory displays, alarms, and auditory interfaces. In: Karwowski, W. ed. International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2nd ed. New York: CRC Press. pp. 1021-1025.

Walker, B. N. & Kramer, G. (2006) Sonification. In: Karwowski, W. ed. International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2nd ed. New York: CRC Press. pp. 1254-1256.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2006) The effect of a speech discrimination task on navigation in a virtual environment. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES2006), San Francisco, USA, 16-20 October 2006, 1538-1541.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2006) Navigation performance with a virtual auditory display: effects of beacon sound, capture radius, and practice. Human Factors, 48(2), 265-278.

Walker, B. N., Nance, A. & Lindsay, J. (2006) Spearcons: speech-based Earcons improve navigation performance in auditory menus. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2006), London, England, 20-24 June 2006, 63-68.

Smith, D. R. & Walker, B. N. (2005) Effects of auditory context cues and training on performance of a point estimation sonification task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(8), 1065-1087.

Walker, B. N. & Kramer, G. (2005) Mappings and metaphors in auditory displays: an experimental assessment. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2(4), 407-412.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2005) Development and evaluation of a system for wearable audio navigation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES2005), Orlando, USA, 26-30 September 2005, 1607-1609.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2005) Navigation performance in a virtual environment with bonephones. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2005), Limerick, Ireland, 6-10 July 2005, 260-263.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2005) Using virtual reality to prototype auditory navigation displays. Assistive Technology Journal 17(1), 72-81.

Walker, B. N., & Stanley, R. (2005). Thresholds of audibility for bone-conduction headsets. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2005), Limerick, Ireland, 6-10 July 2005, 218-222.

Walker, B. N., Stanley, R., Iyer, N., Simpson, B. D. & Brungart, D. S. (2005) Evaluation of bone-conduction headsets for use in multitalker communication environments. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES2005), Orlando, USA, 26-30 September 2005, 1615-1619.

Walker, B. N., Stanley, R. M. & Lindsay, J. (2005) Task, user characteristics, and environment interact to affect mobile audio design. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Auditory Displays for Mobile Context-Aware Systems at Pervasive2005, Munich, Germany, 11 May 2005.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2004) Auditory navigation performance is affected by waypoint capture radius. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD2004, Sydney, Australia, 6-10 July 2004.

Walker, B. N., Lindsay, J. & Godfrey, J. (2004) The Audio Abacus: representing numerical values with nonspeech sound for the visually impaired. Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies ASSETS 2004, Atlanta, USA, 18-20 October 2004.

Walker, B. N., Lindsay, J. & Godfrey, J. (2004) The Audio Abacus: representing a wide range of values with accuracy and precision. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD2004, Sydney, Australia, 6-10 July 2004.

Walker, B. N. & Lowey, M. (2004) Sonification Sandbox: a graphical toolkit for auditory graphs. Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of America (RESNA) 27th International Conference, Orlando, USA, 20-22 June 2004.

Walker, B. N. & Cothran, J. T. (2003) Sonification Sandbox: a graphical toolkit for auditory graphs. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD2003, Boston, USA, 6-9 July 2003, 161-163.

Walker, B. N. & Lindsay, J. (2003) Effect of beacon sounds on navigation performance in a virtual reality environment. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD2003, Boston, USA, 6-9 July 2003, 204-207.

Walker, B. N. & Ehrenstein, A. (2000) Pitch and pitch change interact in auditory displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 15-30.