Julie,
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:57:48PM +0100, Julie Allinson wrote:
> how about: "the resource is accessible (or available?) as sound"
>
> ... the notion of 'significant' makes me shudder. What does it mean?
An interesting suggestion. The proposed definition talks about
"a characterisitic... that relates to the human capacity", and
the proposed VES term names all reflect qualities perceived from
the perspective of human capacities ("auditory", "haptic"...)
without naming those qualities directly (e.g., "sound", as you
suggest).
I suspect it would be really hard (and perhaps not very helpful)
to come up with a list of those inherent qualities because this
really is about capacities seen from a specific standpoint. The
best I can do on the fly is:
auditoryOnly - sound (because nothing else can be heard... I would think...)
hapticOnly - physicality?
visualOnly - visibility?
brailleOnly - braille
tactileOnly - physicality? not clear how this is different from haptic
olfactoryOnly - smells
hazard - ???
Have we tried the word "amenability"? As in: "the
amenability of the resource to being perceived,
operated, understood, or otherwise engaged in through
[auditory|haptic|visual|braille|tactile|olfactory] capacities"?
Everyone please weigh in on this point. Let's try to reach some
conclusions.
Tom
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