Mapping GUIs to auditory interfaces
UIST '92 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Lessons from developing audio HTML interface
Assets '98 Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
User interface of a Home Page Reader
Assets '98 Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface
The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface
A comparison of static, adaptive, and adaptable menus
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing help topics for use with text-to-speech
SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Computers and People with Disabilities
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
Soundtrack: an auditory interface for blind users
Human-Computer Interaction
Investigating touchscreen accessibility for people with visual impairments
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
Detecting linguistic HCI markers in an online aphasia support group
Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Exploring adverse effects of adaptive voice menu
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Design and evaluation of adaptive interfaces for IVR systems
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Auditory menus can supplement or replace visual menus to enhance usability and accessibility. Despite the rapid increase of research on auditory displays, more is still needed to optimize the auditory-specific aspects of these implementations. In particular, there are several menu attributes and features that are often displayed visually, but that are not or poorly conveyed in the auditory version of the menu. Here, we report on two studies aimed at determining how best to render the important concept of an unavailable menu item. In Study 1, 23 undergraduates navigated a Microsoft Word-like auditory menu with a mix of available and unavailable items. For unavailable items, using whisper was favored over attenuated voice or saying "unavailable". In Study 2, 26 undergraduates navigated a novel auditory menu. With practice, whispering unavailable items was more effective than skipping unavailable items. Results are discussed in terms of acoustic theory and cognitive menu selection theory.