Category summary
Summing up parts from the previous chapter, we can deduce three main sonification
categories, with their subcategories :
- closing / opening - feedbacks - menu sonification -
Some of the subcategories can be described using the following morphological portraits :
* Typical "welcome" samples :
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Based on 32 examples taken from 4 different programs.
| Polyphonic / monophonic | polyphonic |
| Dynamic profile |  |
| Melodic profile | 
&  -
generally up |
| Length | Between 2 and 3 sec or > 4 sec. |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Typical "goodbye" samples :
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Based on 11 examples taken from 2 different programs.
| Polyphonic / monophonic | polyphonic |
| Dynamic profile |  & |
| Melodic profile |
- generally down |
| Length | Between 2 and 4 sec |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Typical "opening" samples :
(window open - expand - maximize)
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Based on 33 examples taken from 2 different programs.
| Polyphonic / monophonic | monophonic |
| Dynamic profile |  |
| Melodic profile |  &
- generally up |
| Length | Less than 0,5 sec |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Typical "closing" samples :
(window close-minimize-collapse)
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Based on 16 examples taken from 2 different programs.
| Polyphonic / monophonic | monophonic |
| Dynamic profile | |
| Melodic profile |
& |
| Length | Less than 0,5 sec |
Open corresponding analysis page.
Alerts / feedbacks - sorted with negative/positive axis
* Degree - 3 : too few examples
* Degree -2
(neg feedback to explicit question / error)
Based on 24 examples taken from 5 different programs.
| Polyphonic / monophonic | both |
| Dynamic profile | |
| Melodic profile | ,& |
| Length | 0.5 to 1 s |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Degree -1
(neg feedback to implicit question / slight alert)
Based on 10 examples taken from 2 different programs (mail : no mail today)
| Polyphonic / monophonic | both |
| Dynamic profile |
or |
| Melodic profile | |
| Length | 0 to 0.5 s |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Degree 0
(notice)
Based on 8 examples taken from 3 different programs
| Polyphonic / monophonic | both |
| Dynamic profile | |
| Melodic profile |
or |
| Length | 0 to 0.5 s |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Degree +1
(notice)
Based on 19 examples taken from 4 different programs
| Polyphonic / monophonic | monophonic |
| Dynamic profile | |
| Melodic profile | |
| Length | 0.5 to 1 s. |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Degree +2
(positive feedback to explicit question)
Based on 28 examples taken from 5 different programs
| Polyphonic / monophonic | polyphonic |
| Dynamic profile | or
|
| Melodic profile | |
| Length | 0.5 to 2 s. |
Open corresponding analysis page.
* Degree +3
(great relief or success - especially in games)
Based on 13 examples taken from 2 different games
| Polyphonic / monophonic | n/a |
| Dynamic profile | n/a |
| Melodic profile | |
| Length | centered around 1.5 sec or very long (6 sec +) |
Open corresponding analysis page.
Menu sonification
-- 1. open Menu
-- 2. onMouseOver folder (18 samples in common with openMenu)
-- 3. onMouseRelease folder ( 2 samples in common with onMouseOver item
- 18 samples in common with openMenu)
-- in Win 98, thesethree categories are merged in a single one : open Menu
-- as most of the samples for the study come from W98, the "typical"
morph. profile is the same for these three categories :
| Polyphonic / monophonic | monophonic |
| Dynamic profile |
or  |
| Melodic profile | |
| Length | very short : between 0 and 0.5 sec. |
4. onMouseOver item -- too few samples to deduce a typical profile
5. onMouseRelease item - accepted (2 samples in common with onMouseRelease folder )
| Polyphonic / monophonic | monophonic |
| Dynamic profile | |
| Melodic profile | or |
| Length | very short : between 0 and 0.5 sec. |
6. onMouseRelease item - refused - too few samples to deduce a typical
profile
7. close Menu -- too few samples to deduce a typical profile