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Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04)
Representing Hierarchies Using Multiple Synthetic Voices
London, England
July 14-July 16
ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0
Peer Shajahan, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
This paper reports on ongoing work related to the representation of hierarchical structures using multiple synthetic voices. We manipulated three synthetic voice parameters, average pitch, pitch range and speech rate, to represent nodes in a hierarchy. We created hierarchies containing 10 nodes and three levels deep. A within-subjects design (N=12) was conducted to compare the effect of multiple synthetic voices to single synthetic voices for locating the positions of items in a hierarchy. Subjects were trained with the set of rules we used for constructing the multiple synthetic voices. In a node-finding task, participants identified the position of a previously listened-to node. Our results show that subjects recalled the nodes' positions in the hierarchy significantly better when the hierarchies were equipped with multiple synthetic voices than without.
Index Terms:
Hierarchies, synthetic voice, multiple synthetic voices, telephone-based interfaces, navigation, non-speech audio
Citation:
Peer Shajahan, Pourang Irani, "Representing Hierarchies Using Multiple Synthetic Voices," iv, pp.885-891, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04), 2004
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