Using Nonspeech Sounds to Provide Navigation Cues

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 224-259

  Brewster, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory interfaces; earcons; Human Factors; navigation; nonspeech audio; telephone based interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958141351     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/292834.292839     Document Type: Article

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