Abstract
With an ever increasing number of mobile services, meaningful audio notifications could effectively inform users of the incoming services while minimising undesired and intrusive interruptions. Therefore, careful design of mobile service notification is needed. In this paper we evaluate two types of audio (auditory icons and earcons) as mobile service notifications, by comparing them on 4 measures: intuitiveness, learnability, memorability and user preference. A 4-stage longitudinal evaluation involving two lab experiments, a field study and a web-based experiment indicated that auditory icons performed significantly better in all measures. Implications for mobile audio notification design are presented.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI '09 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Editors | S Greenberg, S E Hudson, K Hinkley, M RingelMorris, D R Olsen |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 1513-1522 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-60558-246-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Event | 27th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Boston, MA, USA United States Duration: 4 Apr 2009 → 9 Apr 2009 |
Conference
Conference | 27th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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Country/Territory | USA United States |
City | Boston, MA |
Period | 4/04/09 → 9/04/09 |
Bibliographical note
Proceedings paper from 27th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA, 04-09 April, 2009.Keywords
- intuitiveness
- auditory icons
- Mobile audio notifications
- memorability
- learnability
- earcons
- mobile services