Subject: AUDITORY Digest - 16 Jul 2001 to 17 Jul 2001 (#2001-140) From: Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:00:10 -0400There are 3 messages totalling 130 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Those messages about "AUDITORY list edit URL 2. finger nails on blackboard (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:16:46 +0200 From: Stefan Muenkner <stefan.muenkner(at)UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE> Subject: Re: Those messages about "AUDITORY list edit URL How about providing for a pgp-key field in the member information then? It could even be used to encrypt the mail containing the passcode.. Stefan -- Stefan Muenkner | email: Institute of Physiology II | stefan.muenkner(at)uni-tuebingen.de University of Tuebingen | Gmelinstr. 5 | phone +49 7071 29-84162 D-72076 Tuebingen | fax +49 7071 22917 Germany | "JL" == John Lazzaro <lazzaro(at)CS.BERKELEY.EDU> writes: --<snip-snip>-- JL> Dan and many list members know this already, but just to be JL> clear here -- that email message, sent to the "registered JL> user", can be snooped on its way to you by a JL> moderately-talented and sufficiently-motivated attacker. In JL> this application, its a perfectly sane tradeoff -- the JL> amount of work needed to snoop the email isn't worth the JL> thrill of changing the bio information of an auditory list JL> member. But in general, be aware that unencrypted email is JL> secure only by obscurity, and use an encryption package JL> like PGP if you need real security. JL> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- JL> John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS JL> -- UC Berkeley lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu JL> www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro JL> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:02:50 +0800 From: Mikael Fernstrom <mikael.fernstrom(at)UL.IE> Subject: finger nails on blackboard Dear list, A question that has reoccurred over the last year in my philosophising abou= t sound is: Why do we feel so uncomfortable when hearing the sound of finger nails scraping on a blackboard? I'm working on my PhD in ecological sound design and this question seems to turn up every now and then... ----------------------------- Mikael Fernstr=F6m, M.Sc. Interaction Design Centre, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick, IRELAND Phone: +353-61-202606 Mobile: +353-86-8188079 Web: www.idc.ul.ie www.softday.ie=20 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:56:55 -0700 From: John Neuhoff <jneuhoff(at)ACS.WOOSTER.EDU> Subject: Re: finger nails on blackboard Mikael , There's actually some work on scraping chalkboard sounds. See: Halpern, Blake & Hillenbrand (1986). Psychoacoustics of a chilling sound. Perception & Psychophysics Vol 39(2), 77-80. One finding was that "Contrary to popular belief, removal of low, but not of high, frequencies lessened the sound's unpleasantness." (from the abstract). Joe Wayand also has some work in progress on these kinds of sounds. I think he's on the list, but if not he can be reached at jwayand(at)kent.edu. -John Neuhoff ________________________________ John G. Neuhoff The College of Wooster Department of Psychology Wooster, OH 44691 http://pages.wooster.edu/jneuhoff/index.htm Voice (330) 263-2475 FAX (520) 244-5577 ----- Original Message ----- From: Mikael Fernstrom <mikael.fernstrom(at)UL.IE> To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:02 AM Subject: finger nails on blackboard Dear list, A question that has reoccurred over the last year in my philosophising about sound is: Why do we feel so uncomfortable when hearing the sound of finger nails scraping on a blackboard? I'm working on my PhD in ecological sound design and this question seems to turn up every now and then... ----------------------------- Mikael Fernström, M.Sc. Interaction Design Centre, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick, IRELAND Phone: +353-61-202606 Mobile: +353-86-8188079 Web: www.idc.ul.ie www.softday.ie