Brewster, S.A. (1997) Navigating telephone-based interfaces with earcons. In: 12th British Computer Society HCI Conference, Bristol, England, 12-15 August 1997, pp. 39-56. ISBN 3540761721
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Abstract
Non-speech audio messages called earcons can provide powerful navigation cues in menu hierarchies. However, previous research on earcons has not addressed the particular problems of menus in telephone-based interfaces (TBI's) such as: Does the lower quality of sound in TBI's lower recall rates, can users remember earcons over a period of time and what effect does training type have on recall. An experiment was conducted and results showed that sound quality did lower the recall of earcons. However, redisgn of the earcons overcame this problem with 73 % recalled correctly. Participants could still recall earcons at this level after a week had passed. Training type also affected recall. With 'personal training' participants recalled 73% of the earcons but with purely textual training results were significantly lower. These results show that earcons can provide excellent navigation cues for telephone-based interfaces
Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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Keywords: | earcons, telephone-based interfaces, auditory interfaces, non-speech audio, navigation |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Brewster, Professor Stephen |
Authors: | Brewster, S.A. |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software |
College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
ISBN: | 3540761721 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 1997 Springer Verlag |
First Published: | First published in People and computers XII: Proceedings of HCI '97 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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