An experiment into the use of auditory cues to reduce visual workload

Authors:
M. L. Brown;S. L. Newsome;E. P. Glinert
Affiliations:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Venue:
CHI '89 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
1989

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Abstract

The potential utility of dividing the information flowing from computer to human among several sensory modalities is investigated by means of a rigorous experiment which compares the effectiveness of auditory and visual cues in the performance of a visual search task. The results indicate that a complex auditory cue can be used to replace cues traditionally presented in the visual modality. Implications for the design of multimodal workstations are discussed.