A Comparative Study of Sonification Methods to Represent Distance and Forward-Direction in Pedestrian Navigation

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 740-751

  Hussain, Ibrar ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Mirza, Hamid Turab ^b   Xing, Kong ^a   Chen, Gencai ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Process and Energy Systems Engineering Center PRESTIGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS;

AUDIO FEEDBACKS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EARCONS; NON-SPEECH AUDIO; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; SHORT PULSE; SONIFICATIONS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84904253443     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: 15327590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2014.925381     Document Type: Article

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