Spatial audio displays improve the detection of target messages in a continuous monitoring task

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 688-695

  McAnally, Ken I ^a   Martin, Russell L ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUDIO DISPLAYS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING TASKS; SPEECH-ON-SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TARGET MESSAGE DETECTION;

TARGET TRACKING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AVIATION; CONTINUOUS MONITORING TASK; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MONITOR; MONITORING; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AVIATION; CUES; DATA DISPLAY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VICTORIA;

EID: 34547169905     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X215764     Document Type: Article

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