Sound sample detection and numerosity estimation using auditory display

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gamper, Hannes ^a   Dicke, Christina ^b   Billinghurst, Mark ^b   Puolamäki, Kai ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human factors

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY DISPLAY; DESIGN PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTATION; INFORMATION DISPLAY; LOCATION INFORMATION; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; USER PERFORMANCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84874891621     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2422105.2422109     Document Type: Article

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