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CHI
1993
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces
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. ...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Conveying Browsing Context Through Audio on Digital Talking Books
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...
Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Name that tune: musicons as reminders in the home
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Auditory icon and earcon mobile service notifications: intuitiveness, learnability, memorability and preference
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...
ICAD
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Designing Sound: Towards a System for Designing Audio Interfaces using Timbre Spaces
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...
Craig Nicol, Stephen A. Brewster, Philip D. Gray