Personal Technologies

, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp 209–212 | Cite as

Presenting dynamic information on mobile computers

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Abstract

A problem with mobile computing devices is the output of dynamic information owing to their small screens. This paper describes an experiment to investigate the use of non-speech sounds to present dynamic information without using visual display space. Results showed that non-speech sound could be used in a simple share-dealing scenario to present a “sound graph” of share prices. This allowed participants to reduce the workload they had to invest in share-price monitoring as they could listen to the graph whilst they worked in a share accumulation window.

Keywords

User Interface Computing Device Human Computer Interaction Visual Display Mobile Computing 
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© Springer-Verlag London Ltd 2000

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Glasgow Interactive Systems Group, Department of Computing ScienceUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK

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