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An Examination of Auditory Warnings and Their Effects on a Computer User's Response to Error Messages.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Luttrell, Wesley Abram
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	LUTTRELL, WESLEY ABRAM. An Examination of Auditory Warnings and Their Effects on a Computer User’s Response to Error Messages. (Under the direction of Dr. Christopher Mayhorn.) The use of the auditory modality has many advantages across domains, especially when a need to alert the human operator of an error or change in the state of the system arises. Thus, there is a strong argument for the effectiveness of auditory warnings in a typical computing environment. The purpose of such a computerized warning is to elicit a specific, correct response to the message being conveyed to the user. In the following research, eighty-one participants performed an ordinary computing task and were spontaneously shown an error message, either accompanied by or without an auditory tone, and the auditory tone was divided into low and high persistence conditions, the latter would repeat the tone until action was taken by the user. Results indicated that users were most likely to choose to simply close the error message across all conditions, but that the presence of an auditory tone caused users to be more likely to choose a certain option. The results and implications of the current study are discussed considering how they might facilitate software designers and industrial designers in their efforts to continually improve the efficiency and clarity of their products and ultimately improve the user experience. © Copyright 2013 Wesley A. Luttrell All Rights Reserved An Examination of Auditory Warnings and Their Effects on a Computer User’s Response to Error Messages by Wesley A. Luttrell A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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Language	English
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Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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