Authors: Pederson E., Sokoler, T.

“We have developed a prototype architecture that makes up the technical framework for further use studies. The prototype encompasses capture of auditory and visual data, abstraction of such data into compact streams, synthesizing of auditory, visual and haptic imagery from streams of abstract data, and finally display at the receiving end (please note that we are using “display” as opposed to “capture”, i.e., using it in its widest sense, including visual, auditory, and tactile effects).”

Abstract Representation: We use the term “abstract” representation to denote that something has been removed from the original signal, which also imply that more or less interpretive efforts are required by the “reader” of the abstraction. The removal may be a simple, evenly applied degradation, or it may involve more complex processing and possibly feature extraction or silhouetting, as we call it.