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Maximising screen-space on mobile computing devices

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '99 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

SESSION: Late breaking results: overcoming human limitations table of contents

Pages: 224 - 225

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-158-5

Authors

Stephen A Brewster	University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Peter G Cryer	University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 7, Downloads (12 Months): 51, Citation Count: 10

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ABSTRACT

One major problem with mobile computing devices is lack of screen space. One way to overcome this is to reduce the size of the graphical components on screen and present information in sound. This paper describes a small pilot study to investigate the usability of sonically-enhanced buttons of different sizes. Results showed that sounds improved usability for both standard and small button sizes and that the most sophisticated sounds were the most effective.

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	1	Michel Beaudouin-Lafon , Stéphane Conversy, Auditory illusions for audio feedback, Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems: common ground, p.299-300, April 13-18, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [doi>10.1145/257089.257331]
	2	Blattner, M., Sumikawa, D. and Greenberg, R. Earcons and icons: Their structure and common design principles. Human Computer Interaction 4, 1 (1989), 11-44.
	3	Brewster, S. A. The design of sonically-enhanced widgets. Interacting with Computers (1998).
	4	Brewster, S. A., Wright, P. C., Dix, A. J. and Edwards, A. D. N. The sonic enhancement of graphical buttons. In Proceedings of IFIP Interact'95 (Lillehammer, Norway) Chapman & Hall, 1995, pp. 43-48.
	5	Stephen A. Brewster , Peter C. Wright , Alistair D. N. Edwards, An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces, Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.222-227, May 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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	Antti Pirhonen , Stephen Brewster , Christopher Holguin, Gestural and audio metaphors as a means of control for mobile devices, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves, April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	Albrecht Schmidt , Henning Schröder , Oliver Frick, WAP: designing for small user interfaces, CHI '00 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 01-06, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands
	Joanna Lumsden , Stephen Brewster, A paradigm shift: alternative interaction techniques for use with mobile & wearable devices, Proceedings of the 2003 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research, p.197-210, October 06-09, 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Jacob Eisenstein , Jean Vanderdonckt , Angel Puerta, Applying model-based techniques to the development of UIs for mobile computers, Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, p.69-76, January 14-17, 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
	Volker Paelke , Christian Reimann , Waldemar Rosenbach, A visualization design repository for mobile devices, Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual Reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa, February 03-05, 2003, Cape Town, South Africa
	Stephen Brewster, Nonspeech auditory output, The human-computer interaction handbook: fundamentals, evolving technologies and emerging applications, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ, 2002
	Dianne Cyr , Milena Head , Alex Ivanov, Design aesthetics leading to m-loyalty in mobile commerce, Information and Management, v.43 n.8, p.950-963, December, 2006
	Shengdong Zhao , Pierre Dragicevic , Mark Chignell , Ravin Balakrishnan , Patrick Baudisch, Earpod: eyes-free menu selection using touch input and reactive audio feedback, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
	Stephen Brewster , Robin Murray, Presenting Dynamic Information on Mobile Computers, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, v.4 n.4, p.209-212, August 2000
	Shaun K. Kane , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jacob O. Wobbrock, Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques, Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility, October 13-15, 2008, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
buttons, earcons, mobile computers, non-speech sounds

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