摘要: Audio data is rarely used on desktop computers today, although audio otherwise widely for communication tasks. This paper describes early work aimed at creating computer tools that support the ways users may want to with data. User needs system were determined by intervieweing people already working data, using existing devices such as portable tape recorders. A preliminary prototype – consisting of a personal recorder recording and simultaneously marking Macintosh application browsing these recordings was built. Informal field user tests this have indicated areas improvement directions future work.