Audio feedback for continuous scrolled content
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorsLory Molesky, Benjamin L. Moroze
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Abstract
An example system and method for providing audio feedback to a software user when scrolling, panning, or zooming a content area. An example method includes determining one or more dimensions of the content area, which includes one or more sections; detecting a scroll command; scrolling the content such that a user interface viewport moves across the content area in accordance with the scroll command; and playing plural sounds during the scrolling to indicate a scroll direction, a scroll velocity, and to indicate a start position and an end position of the viewport relative to the content area.
Claims20
A method for providing playback of audio feedback in a system providing audio feedback when scrolling or panning an object in a content area simultaneously in two dimensions on a computing device display, the method comprising:
- recording an audio history including first and second sounds being adjusted in accordance with scrolling in first and second dimensions, respectively;
- and
- receiving a signal from an input device to cause a playback of the audio history.
An apparatus for presenting data visualization graphics, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a tangible processor-readable storage device including instructions for providing playback of audio feedback in a system providing audio feedback when scrolling or panning an object in a content area simultaneously in two dimensions on a computing device display, the instructions causing acts comprising:
- recording an audio history including first and second sounds being adjusted in accordance with scrolling in first and second dimensions, respectively;
- and
- receiving a signal from an input device to cause a playback of the audio history.
A tangible processor-readable storage device including instructions executable by one or more processors for providing playback of audio feedback in a system providing audio feedback when scrolling or panning an object in a content area simultaneously in two dimensions on a computing device display, the instructions causing acts comprising:
- recording an audio history including first and second sounds being adjusted in accordance with scrolling in first and second dimensions, respectively;
- and
- receiving a signal from an input device to cause a playback of the audio history.
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