The effects of device technology on the usability of advanced telephone functions
CHI '89 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
Phoneshell: the telephone as computer terminal
MULTIMEDIA '93 Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia
Can we use music in computer-human communication?
HCI '95 Proceedings of the HCI'95 conference on People and computers X
Designing SpeechActs: issues in speech user interfaces
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MailCall: message presentation and navigation in a nonvisual environment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Role of Music in Multimedia
IEEE MultiMedia
Earcons as a Method of Providing Navigational Cues in a Menu Hierarchy
HCI '96 Proceedings of HCI on People and Computers XI
Navigating Telephone-Based Interfaces with Earcons
HCI 97 Proceedings of HCI on People and Computers XII
Using music as a communication medium
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Earcons and icons: their structure and common design principles
Human-Computer Interaction
Evaluation of auditory displays: Comments on Bonebright et al., ICAD 1998
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
A user study of visual versus sonically-enhanced interfaces for use while walking
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Overview of auditory representations in human-machine interfaces
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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This paper describes an experiment that investigates new principles for representing hierarchical menus such as telephone-based interface menus, with non-speech audio. A hierarchy of 25 nodes with a sound for each node was used. The sounds were designed to test the efficiency of using specific features of a musical language to provide navigation cues. Participants (half musicians and half non-musicians) were asked to identify the position of the sounds in the hierarchy. The overall recall rate of 86% suggests that syntactic features of a musical language of representation can be used as meaningful navigation cues. More generally, these results show that the specific meaning of musical motives can be used to provide ways to navigate in a hierarchical structure such as telephone-based interfaces menus.