Localizable auditory warning pulses

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 748-771

  Catchpole, Ken R ^a   McKeown, J Denis ^b   Withington, Deborah J ^b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory displays; Localizable alarms

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; RECORDING; SEMANTICS; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUDITORY WARNING PULSES; TONE PULSE NOISE;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECORDING; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SAFETY; SOUND;

EID: 3142727188     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130310001629739     Document Type: Article

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