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LePlâtre, Grégory and Brewster, Stephen A (1998) An investigation of using music to provide navigation cues. ICAD 98.
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Abstract/Description
This paper describes an experiment that investigates new principles for representing hierarchical menus such
as telephone-based interface menus, with non-speech audio. A hierarchy of 25 nodes with a sound for each
node was used. The sounds were designed to test the efficiency of using specific features of a musical
language to provide navigation cues. Participants (half musicians and half non-musicians) were asked to
identify the position of the sounds in the hierarchy. The overall recall rate of 86% suggests that syntactic
features of a musical language of representation can be used as meaningful navigation cues. More generally,
these results show that the specific meaning of musical motives can be used to provide ways to navigate in a
hierarchical structure such as telephone-based interfaces menus
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | interface menus; non-speech audio; hierarchical menus; musical language; navigation cues; |
| University Divisions/Research Centres: | Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries > School of Computing |
| Dewey Decimal Subjects: | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems > 005 Computer programming, programs & data > 005.4 Systems programming and programs > 005.43 Systems programs & operating systems > 005.437 User interfaces |
| Library of Congress Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software |
| Item ID: | 3334 |
| Depositing User: | Computing Research |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2010 16:24 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2011 04:53 |
| URI: | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3334 |
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