The perceived urgency of speech warnings: Semantics versus acoustics

Human Factors

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Hellier, Elizabeth ^a   Edworthy, Judy ^a   Weedon, Ben ^b   Walters, Kathryn ^a   Adams, Austin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH WARNINGS;

SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0036306542     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720024494810     Document Type: Article

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