Mapping information to audio and tactile icons

Hoggan, Eve; Raisamo, Roope; Brewster, Stephen

doi:10.1145/1647314.1647382

Cited by 37 publications

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“…A C2 Tactor from Engineering Acoustics 2 was used for the tactile stimuli, a common device in studies of tactile feedback, e.g. [15,16]. Tactile stimuli had a constant frequency of 250 Hz, the nominal centre frequency of the C2 -the frequency at which the skin is most sensitive.…”

Section: Warning Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating multimodal driver displays under varying situational urgency

Politis

Brewster

Pollick

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Previous studies have investigated audio, visual and tactile driver warnings, indicating the importance of communicating the appropriate level of urgency to the drivers. However, these modalities have never been combined exhaustively and tested under conditions of varying situational urgency to assess their effectiveness both in the presence and absence of critical driving events. This paper describes an experiment evaluating all multimodal combinations of such warnings under two contexts of situational urgency: a lead car braking and not braking. The results showed that participants responded quicker to more urgent warnings, especially in the presence of a car braking. They also responded faster to the multimodal as opposed to unimodal signals. Driving behaviour improved in the presence of the warnings and the absence of a car braking. These results highlight the influence of urgency and number of modalities in warning design and indicate the utility of non-visual warnings in driving.

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Section: Warning Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating multimodal driver displays under varying situational urgency

Politis

Brewster

Pollick

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Past research on haptic icon design, summarized in [27], provides a start for finding salient yet unintrusive tactile mappings for cues. Icons for progress updates, errors, and warnings provide insights for presentation cues [15,44]. Signal perception, usually vibrotactile and on the fingertips, has been examined as a function of intensity [19], duration [44], and tempo and rhythm [12,44].…”

Section: Tactile Perception: Body Locale and Iconographymentioning

confidence: 99%

The design and field observation of a haptic notification system for timing awareness during oral presentations

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MacLean

McGrenere

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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To moderate oral presentations a chair must manage time, and communicate time parameters to speakers through a variety of means. But speakers often miss time cues, chairs cannot confirm their receipt, and the broken dialogue can be a sideshow for the audience. We developed HaNS, a wireless wrist-worn chair-speaker Haptic Notification System that delivers tactile cues for time-managing oral presentations, and performed field observations at university research seminars and two mid-sized academic conferences (input from 66 speakers, 21 chairs, and 65 audience members). Results indicate that HaNS can improve a user's awareness of time, facilitate chair-speaker coordination, and reduce distraction of speaker and audience through its private communication channel. Eliminating overruns will require improvement in speaker 'internal' control, which our results suggest HaNS can also support given practice. We conclude with design guidelines for both conference-deployed and personal timing tools, using touch or another notification modality.

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“…Consider how the perceived urgency of identical warning sounds may be different depending on whether it indicates a low battery warning of a mobile phone, or a problem with a heart rate monitoring system. See Hoggan et al (2009) for an example on contextual differences in mapping audio parameters to informing signals by user interfaces (i.e., confirmations, errors, progress updates, warnings). Furthermore, product sounds are always part of a larger auditory environment.…”

Section: Functions Of Intentional Soundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As discussed before, the abstract mapping of earcons must be learned, as there is no semantic link between the sounds and the data they represent. Differentiation is commonly found in terms of pitch, rhythm, timbre, spatial location, duration, and tempo (Hoggan et al 2009). A second class of intentional sounds are auditory icons.…”

Section: Classes Of Intentional Soundmentioning

confidence: 99%