Evaluating a vehicle auditory display: comparing a designer's expectations with listeners' experiences

McGregor, Iain; Larsson, Pontus; Turner, Phil

Abstract

This paper illustrates a method for the early evaluation of auditory displays in context. A designer was questioned about his expectations of an auditory display for Heavy Goods Vehicles, and the results were compared to the experiences of 10 listeners. Sound design is essentially an isolated practice and by involving listeners the process can become collaborative. A review of the level of agreement allowed the identification of attributes that might be meaningful for the design of future auditory displays. Results suggest that traditional auditory display design guidelines that focus on the acoustical properties of sound might not be suitable.

Citation

McGregor, I., Larsson, P., & Turner, P. (2011, August). Evaluating a vehicle auditory display: comparing a designer's expectations with listeners' experiences. Presented at 29th conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics, Rostock, Germany

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 29th conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics
• Start Date: Aug 24, 2011
• End Date: Aug 26, 2011
• Online Publication Date: Aug 24, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011-08
• Deposit Date: Aug 24, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 24, 2011
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 89-92
• Book Title: ECCE '11: Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-1029-1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2074712.2074731
• Keywords: Auditory displays; sound design; design; listeners experience; designer's expectations
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4595
• Contract Date: Aug 24, 2011