| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L79212/01 |
| Title: |
GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF SOUND IN MULTIMEDIA HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Brewster, Professor SA |
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| Department: |
School of Computing Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Glasgow |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 1998 |
Ends: |
31 October 2001 |
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225,425
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| Human-Computer Interactions |
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Sonically-enhanced graphical human-computer interfaces allow more natural communication between computer and user. Such multimedia interfaces allow users to employ two senses to solve a problem, rather than using vision to solve all problems. This leads to reductions in the time taken to complete tasks. However, this are is in its infancy and there is little systematic research to demonstrate the bast ways of combining graphics and sound. This means sounds are often added in ad hoc and ineffective ways by designers. The innovative aspect of this proposal is to produce a set of guidelines, and a toolkit based on it, to simplify the use of sounds so that designers can improve the usability of their multimedia interfaces. We will investigate the most effective places to use sound by experimental evaluation. From these experiments guidelines will be produced. A toolkit will be built, based on the guidelines, that designers can use to create effective sonically-enhanced interfaces. We will also investigate new interaction techniques that become possible by the combination of graphics and sound. Interface developers will benefit from this work because they will be able to produce more usable interfaces. End-users will benefit because the resulting interfaces will be more usable.
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http://www.gla.ac.uk |