Paper Info
Title
Spatial Auditory Interface for Word Processing Application
Abstract
In this paper we evaluate two different auditory interfaces for word processing application. The interfaces are in the form of hierarchical menu structures and use spatial sounds in two different spatial configurations. The first menu - AH - has a ring shaped horizontal configuration of the sound sources, whereas the second - AV - has a vertical configuration of the sound sources. Spatial sounds are used to increase the information flow between the user and the application. In this way, multiple sources (i.e. menu commands) can be played and perceived simultaneously. The main goal of the experiment was to choose the most efficient interface based on a user study with 16 test subjects. The test subjects were asked to perform five different tasks with two auditory interfaces and a normal visual GUI. The variables observed in the user study were: task completion times, navigation performance and various subjective evaluations. The AV interface proved to be the most efficient and user friendly and will therefore be used in further experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ACHI.2009.30
ACHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
menu command,hierarchical menu structure,av interface,different auditory interface,spatial sound,user study,sound source,word processing application,different task,different spatial configuration,test subject,spatial auditory interface,acoustics,information flow,navigation,data mining,human computer interaction,speech processing,audio signal processing,visualization,graphical user interfaces
Speech processing,Information flow (information theory),Computer science,Visualization,Speech recognition,Human–computer interaction,Graphical user interface,User Friendly,Audio signal processing,Word processing,Text processing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.45
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaka Sodnik117817.77
Sašo Tomažic251.60