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Volume 46 , Issue 7 (July 2003) table of contents
A game experience in every application

SPECIAL ISSUE: A game experience in every application table of contents

Pages: 86 - 93

Year of Publication: 2003

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Paul Vickers	Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.
James L. Alty	Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Program execution behavior can be mapped to a structured musical framework that helps locate and diagnose software errors.

REFERENCES

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	1	James L. Alty, Can we use music in computer-human communication?, Proceedings of the HCI'95 conference on People and computers X, p.409-423, April 1996, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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	10	Vickers, P. and Alty, J. Musical program auralisation: A structured approach to motif design. Interact. Comput. 14, 5 (Oct. 2002), 457--485.
	11	Vickers, P. and Alty, J. Using music to communicate computing information. Interact. Comput. 14, 5 (Oct. 2002), 435--456.
	12	Vickers, P. and Alty, J. When bugs sing. Interact. Comput. 14, 6 (Dec. 2002), 793--819.

CITED BY 2

	Paul Vickers, Program auralization: Author's comments on Vickers and Alty, ICAD 2000, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), v.2 n.4, p.490-494, October 2005
	Kevin Cheng , Paul A. Cairns, Behaviour, realism and immersion in games, CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, OR, USA

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.5 Testing and Debugging

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.0 General

H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.0 General
H.5.5 Sound and Music Computing

REVIEW

"Marc S Gibian : Reviewer"

I was very excited to have the opportunity to review this paper, given my own personal interests in music and software development. Vickers and Alty have contributed a fascinating paper that is among the best I have encountered in computer science more...

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James L. Alty: colleagues

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