Comparing speech versus text displays for alarm handling

Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1240-1254

  Stanton, N A ^a   Baber, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alarm handling; Alarms; Speech displays; Text displays

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DISPLAY DEVICES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ALARM HANDLING; SPEECH DISPLAYS; TEXT DISPLAYS;

ERGONOMICS;

ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

EID: 0031281296     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401397187487     Document Type: Article

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