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Output modalities

Under output modalities or computer output media, we understand the media (devices) and modalities (communication channels) which are used by computers to communicate with humans. As the communication channels for computer output are the same ones as those for human input (see figure 1.1 ), the following subsections are structured with respect to those in section 2.1 . Therefore, we renounce to repeat what has been said there and will instead investigate the devices and methods for the three ``main senses'' in the following.



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