About the Glossary

I've been wondering about the glossary-page. It's a good and useful page on a multidisciplinary area, especially for newcomers/students/general public, but since we researchers are always nit-picking about references and definitions, I was wondering how have/should we come up with the terms included in that page? I guess everybody knows what 'pitch' means, but already 'timbre' is getting more vague (at least according to one of the keynote speeches this year), and further down the line it gets even more interesting.

What kind of terms should we include in the first place? How should they be divided/organized? Since the page is prominent (it's on the community's site!!!), I think we should aim for clear and concise (=authoritative ;), with references for further info, maybe more as a network-structure with subdivision, links between and so on. But would it be too much work, and much easier to just use wikipedia?

_Anssi

glossary

Hi Anssi, 

A recent technical report (co-authored by some frequent ICAD attendees) offered a nice "lexicon" of auditory display terms, which might be a good starting point for those interested in pursuing expansion of the current glossary page: 
Letowski, T., Karsh, R., Vause, N., Shilling, R. D., Ballas, J., Brungart, D., et al. (2001). Human factors military lexicon: Auditory displays: Army Research Laboratory Technical Report. 
Apparently the full text links on the web (via Google scholar or the Army's Public STINET http://stinet.dtic.mil/) are all dead, but I can email a copy of the pdf to anyone interested--just shoot me an email (mnees@gatech.edu). 
Mike
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