Enhanced auditory menu cues improve dual task performance and are preferred with in-vehicle technologies

Auditory display research for driving has mainly focused on collision warning signals, and recent studies on auditory invehicle information presentation have examined only a limited range of tasks (e.g., cell phone operation tasks or verbal tasks such as reading digit strings). The present study used a dual task paradigm to evaluate a plausible scenario in which users navigated a song list. We applied enhanced auditory menu navigation cues, including spearcons (i.e., compressed speech) and a spindex (i.e., a speech index that used brief audio cues to communicate the user’s position in a long menu list). Twentyfour undergraduates navigated through an alphabetized song list of 150 song titles—rendered as an auditory menu—while they concurrently played a simple, perceptual-motor, ball-catching game. The menu was presented with text-to-speech (TTS) alone, TTS plus one of three types of enhanced auditory cues, or no sound at all. Both performance of the primary task (success rate of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AUTOMOTIVEUI
• Authors: Myounghoon Jeon, Benjamin K. Davison, Michael A. Nees, Jeff Wilson, Bruce N. Walker
• Keywords: Auditory Menus, AUTOMOTIVEUI 2009, Enhanced Auditory, Enhanced Auditory Cue, Human Computer Interaction