New Type of Auditory Progress Bar: Exploration, Design and Evaluation

In this paper, we focus on the method to explore a different type of auditory progress bar by analyzing the characteristics of the visual progress bar and contexts of auditory application. A scenario of bearing in the forward/reverse modes of digital compass is selected to implement the auditory progress bar. The auditory cues play an interactive role in the bearing that they are altered according to the user’s operating behavior. Composed of sound signal and silent pause, the auditory cues are generated from a formula based on the warm/cold metaphor. A method incorporating the foreground/ background sounds is also designed to provide different ranges of progress information/progress update expressed through auditory cues. In this report four versions of auditory cues are presented as the solution to the interactive auditory progress bar and a pilot study is evaluated.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Shuo Hsiu Hsu, Cécile Le Prado, Stéphane Natkin, Claude Liard
• Keywords: Auditory Application, Auditory Cues, Auditory Progress Bar, HCI 2007, Human Computer Interaction