Title
Communicative modalities for mobile device interaction
Abstract
An investigation of communicative modalities in relation to mobile device interaction while walking is presented. A user evaluation compared three communicative modality conditions: Auditory, Visual, and Mixed (a redundant audio-visual modality). Findings determined that redundant audio-visual modalities are as good as (but no better than) the visual modality, and both are superior to the auditory modality. Reported findings also determined that walking speeds are unaffected by communicative modality. Shape drawing tasks were performed on a touch screen using each modality, and a robust, novel error calculation algorithm was developed to assess the drawing error between the user input and the desired shapes. Drawing error was determined to be significantly higher with the Auditory condition, but drawing speed was unaffected by the communicative modality. The evaluation finds that the visual modality should be leveraged as the primary communicative modality for mobile, map-based interfaces. The drawing error algorithm can be applied to any domain that requires determining precise matchings to known information when drawing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.05.003
Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile device interaction,Touch interaction,Communicative modalities,Input recognition
Modalities,Visual modality,Computer science,Drawing Tasks,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Preferred walking speed
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
71
10
1071-5819
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
39
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eli R. Hooten1100.97
Sean T. Hayes270.86
Julie A. Adams339253.75