Spearcons (speech-based earcons) improve navigation performance in advanced auditory menus

Human Factors

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-182

  Walker, Bruce N ^a   Lindsay, Jeffrey ^a   Nance, Amanda ^a   Nakano, Yoko ^a   Palladino, Dianne K ^a   Dingler, Tilman ^a   Jeon, Myounghoon ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory icons; auditory menus; earcons; spearcons

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUES; AUDITORY ICONS; AUDITORY MENUS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; EARCONS; EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; LEARNABILITY; LEARNING RATES; MENU ITEMS; MENU NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; NON SPEECH; SPEARCONS; TECHNOLOGY USE; TEXT TO SPEECH; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE DEVICES; USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE PHONE; SOUND; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CUES; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND; SPEECH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873676135     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720812450587     Document Type: Article

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