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Title

Extending ecological interface design to auditory displays

Author(s)

Sanderson, Penelope M.;  Anderson, Janet;  Watson, Marcus

Abstract

We have proposed an extension of Ecological Interface Design (EID) to encompass the design of auditory displays. Our analysis shows that EID can succeed in this task if all stages of Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) are employed and if an extra “attentional mapping” stage is added, which maps the attentional need of the human operators. A review of auditory perception and attention suggests that the critical design problem is how to facilitate the movement of sound into focal awareness when the system is abnormal and out of focal awareness when the system is normal. Current knowledge of the shift in auditory attention is limited but developing in the sonification community.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. School of Information Technology

Source

Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Ergonomics Society of Australia (OzCHI2000), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 4-8 December 2000, pp. 259-266

Publication year

2000

Publisher

CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences

ISBN

0 643 06633 0

Publisher URL

Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Ergonomics Society of Australia (OzCHI2000), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 4-8 December 2000

Publisher URL

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~cerg/publications/OzCHI2000SandersonAndersonWatson.pdf

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