Non-Visual Menu Navigation: the Effect of an Audio-Tactile Display

2014. Oussama Metatla, Fiore Martin, Tony Stockman & Nick Bryan-Kinns
Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI.

Abstract

We present a preliminary study examining non-visual menu navigation in terms of task completion times and cognitive workload. We asked 12 participants to locate items on menus presented using visual, audio-only and audio-tactile displays on a touch screen mobile device and found that users were significantly slower in locating an item on a menu when using an audio-tactile menu display. This difference in performance was not reflected in the users' subjective workload assessments. We discuss the implications of these findings in terms of cross-modal display and the design of menu navigation gestures on touch screen devices.

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Citation

Metatla, O., Martin, F., Stockman, T., & Bryan-Kinns, N. (2014). Non-visual menu navigation: the effect of an audio-tactile display. Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI (pp. 213–217). Swindon, GBR: BCS. URL: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.25, doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2014.25

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.14236/ewic/hci2014.25,
author = {Metatla, Oussama and Martin, Fiore and Stockman, Tony and Bryan-Kinns, Nick},
title = {Non-Visual Menu Navigation: the Effect of an Audio-Tactile Display},
year = {2014},
publisher = {BCS},
address = {Swindon, GBR},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.25},
doi = {10.14236/ewic/hci2014.25},
abstract = {We present a preliminary study examining non-visual menu navigation in terms of task completion times and cognitive workload. We asked 12 participants to locate items on menus presented using visual, audio-only and audio-tactile displays on a touch screen mobile device and found that users were significantly slower in locating an item on a menu when using an audio-tactile menu display. This difference in performance was not reflected in the users' subjective workload assessments. We discuss the implications of these findings in terms of cross-modal display and the design of menu navigation gestures on touch screen devices.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI},
pages = {213–217},
numpages = {5},
keywords = {Touch screens, auditory display, cognitive load, cross-modal interaction, menu navigation, tactile feedback},
location = {Southport, UK},
series = {BCS-HCI '14}
}