Optimizing the Spatial Configuration of a Seven-Talker Speech Display

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-436

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocktail party effect; Human Factors; Informational masking; Speech Interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954529161     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1101530.1101538     Document Type: Article

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