The Well-tempered Compiler? The Aesthetics of Program Auralization
This work addresses the design of auditory interfaces for programmers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts without introducing new methods or data.
The paper explores program auralization, focusing on how auditory representations of programs are influenced by artistic and aesthetic considerations, and examines this in the context of aesthetic computing principles.
In this chapter we are concerned with external auditory representations of programs, also known as program auralization. As program auralization systems tend to use musical representations they are necessarily affected by artistic and aesthetic considerations. Therefore, it is instructive to explore program auralization in the light of aesthetic computing principles.