Connoted Hazard of Voiced Warning Signal Words: An Examination of Auditory Components

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 702-705

  Hollander, Todd D ^a   Wogalter, Michael S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALARM SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SOUND CLIPS; VOICED WARNINGS;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 1842685292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120004402254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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