Presenting Dynamic Information on Mobile Computers

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Brewster;Robin Murray

  • Affiliations:
  • Glasgow Interactive Systems Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;Glasgow Interactive Systems Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A problem with mobile computing devices is the output of dynamic information owing to their small screens. This paper describes an experiment to investigate the use of non-speech sounds to present dynamic information without using visual display space. Results showed that non-speech sound could be used in a simple share-dealing scenario to present a “sound graph” of share prices. This allowed participants to reduce the workload they had to invest in share-price monitoring as they could listen to the graph whilst they worked in a share accumulation window.