Abstract
With an ever increasing number of mobile services, meaningful audio notifications could effectively inform users of the incoming services while minimising undesired and intrusive interruptions. Therefore, careful design of mobile service notification is needed. In this paper we evaluate two types of audio (auditory icons and earcons) as mobile service notifications, by comparing them on 4 measures: intuitiveness, learnability, memorability and user preference. A 4-stage longitudinal evaluation involving two lab experiments, a field study and a web-based experiment indicated that auditory icons performed significantly better in all measures. Implications for mobile audio notification design are presented.
| Translated title of the contribution | Auditory icon and earcon mobile service notifications: Intuitiveness, learnability, memorability and preference |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | Conference Proceedings volume 1 - April 6th papers and notes |
| Subtitle of host publication | On Human Factors in Computing Systems, the 27th international conference |
| Editors | D.R. Olsen, K. Hinckley, M. Ringel Morris, S. Hudson, S Greenberg |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 1513 - 1522 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781605582467 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |