An evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An initial experiment showed that earcons were better th...
Stephen A. Brewster, Peter C. Wright, Alistair D. ...
This paper presents the results of a study comparing the use of auditory icons, earcons and speech in an audio only interface for a digital talking book player. The different techn...
In this paper we argue that Musicons, short samples from pieces of music are a useful way to present private but memorable reminder messages. We investigated accuracy, memorabilit...
Marilyn Rose McGee-Lennon, Maria Wolters, Ross McL...
With an ever increasing number of mobile services, meaningful audio notifications could effectively inform users of the incoming services while minimising undesired and intrusive ...
Stavros Garzonis, Simon Jones, Tim Jay, Eamonn O'N...
The creation of audio interfaces is currently hampered by the difficulty of designing sounds for them. This paper presents a novel system for generating and manipulating non-speec...