Information display of wearable devices through sound feedback of wearable computing

Authors:
Park Young-Hyun;Han Kwang-Hee
Affiliations:
Cognitive Engineering Lab., Department of Psychology, University of Yonsei, Korea;Cognitive Engineering Lab., Department of Psychology, University of Yonsei, Korea
Venue:
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction platforms and techniques
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Functions in wearable devices came to be various and specialized during the developmental process of wearable computing. However, such surfacing of new functions made it difficult and time-consuming for the devices to display the condition of their status, such as whether they are turned on or off. Moreover, mere dependency on visual display could lead to an overload of users' visual cognition. In this research, sounds were used for relaying information feedback of the status of wearable devices. We first verified the usefulness of adding sound feedback, and next, the effect of each device-specific sound was confirmed as a sound feedback.