Perceived urgency and annoyance of auditory alerts in a driving context

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1684-1687

  Gonzalez, Christian ^a   Lewis, Bridget A ^a   Roberts, Daniel M ^a   Pratt, Stephanie M ^a   Baldwin, Carryl L ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-VEHICLE; IN-VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY; MULTIPLE LEVELS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL APPROACH; PULSE RATE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84873432574     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181312561337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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