Non-Visual Menu Navigation: the Effect of an Audio-Tactile Display
Oussama Metatla, Fiore Martin, Tony Stockman & Nick Bryan-Kinns. 2014.
Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI
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.
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} }