Sound-Guided 2-D Navigation: Effects of Information Concurrency and Coordinate System

Prithvi Ravi Kantan; Sofia Dahl; Erika G. Spaich

doi:10.1145/3546155.3546688

Sound-Guided 2-D Navigation: Effects of Information Concurrency and Coordinate System

Prithvi Ravi Kantan, Sofia Dahl^*, Erika G. Spaich^*

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Abstract

Auditory guidance conveying positional information through concurrent variations in properties of synthesized sound has previously been investigated. Auditory guidance may be more effective if multidimensional tasks are divided into unidimensional tasks where the user sequentially tackles each dimension and sound property. User performance may also depend on the coordinate system used for providing guidance. We compared concurrent and sequential guidance presentations in Cartesian and polar coordinate systems in a computer-based 2-D target-finding experiment with 15 participants. Sequential guidance was superior regarding completion time and number of interruptions with less cognitive burden than concurrent guidance. Participants were slower with the polar coordinate system than the Cartesian. These findings can contribute to the development of more efficacious guidance systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2022
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	8 Oct 2022
Article number	40
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9699-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546688
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2022
Event	12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 8 Oct 2022 → 12 Oct 2022

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Conference	12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	08/10/2022 → 12/10/2022
Sponsor	Aarhus University, DIREC, IT-vest, Stibofonden

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auditory guidance
concurrency
navigation
perceptual test
sonification

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Kantan, PR , Dahl, S & Spaich, EG 2022, Sound-Guided 2-D Navigation: Effects of Information Concurrency and Coordinate System. in Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2022., 40, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022, Aarhus, Denmark, 08/10/2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546688

Sound-Guided 2-D Navigation: Effects of Information Concurrency and Coordinate System. / Kantan, Prithvi Ravi ; Dahl, Sofia ; Spaich, Erika G.
Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2022. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. 40.

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