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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.  

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