A comparison of broad versus deep auditory menu structures

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-89

  Commarford, Patrick M ^a,b   Lewis, James R ^a   Smither, Janan Al Awar ^c   Gentzler, Marc D ^c  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE (IVR) SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; E-MAIL; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FLORIDA; HUMANS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 40449092061     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X250665     Document Type: Article

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