Natural Interaction with Audio Playback: Tapping Physical Skills

As humans, we possess inherent physical skills like stereoscopic vision, spatial hearing, and fine grained motor skills. Throughout our history we have developed physical tools that extend and leverage these skills. The PC as important tool of our time, however, has an interface that is not particularly suited to tasks outside the office domain, but we use it to work with various types of media. The aim of this thesis is to create audio playback interfaces that leverage our natural skills.