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Evaluating a vehicle auditory display: comparing a designer's expectations with listeners' experiences

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Pontus Larsson,

Phil TurnerAuthors Info & Claims

ECCE '11: Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

Pages 89 - 92

https://doi.org/10.1145/2074712.2074731

Published: 24 August 2011 Publication History

Abstract

This paper illustrates a method for the early evaluation of auditory displays in context. A designer was questioned about his expectations of an auditory display for Heavy Goods Vehicles, and the results were compared to the experiences of 10 listeners. Sound design is essentially an isolated practice and by involving listeners the process can become collaborative. A review of the level of agreement allowed the identification of attributes that might be meaningful for the design of future auditory displays. Results suggest that traditional auditory display design guidelines that focus on the acoustical properties of sound might not be suitable.

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ECCE '11: Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

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DOI:10.1145/2074712

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Lee YLin WKing JKo LHuang YCherng FJones MPalanque PSchmidt AGrossman T(2014)An EEG-based approach for evaluating audio notifications under ambient soundsProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2556288.2557076(3817-3826)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2014
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