The spatial resolution of crossmodal attention: Implications for the design of multimodal interfaces

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gray, Rob ^a,b   Mohebbi, Rayka ^a,b   Tan, Hong Z ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Warnings

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY CUES; AUDITORY WARNING SIGNALS; CROSS MODALS; CROSSMODAL ATTENTIONS; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL INTERACTIONS; SPATIAL LOCATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; UNIMODAL; VIBROTACTILE; VISUAL ATTENTIONS; VISUAL CUES; VISUAL TARGETS; VISUAL WARNINGS; WARNINGS;

SECURITY OF DATA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TARGETS;

LOCATION;

EID: 62149097515     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1462055.1462059     Document Type: Article

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