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Publications by Benjamin K. Davison (bibliography)

2010

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Jeon, Myounghoon, Gupta, Siddharth, Davison, Benjamin K. and Walker, Bruce N. (2010): Auditory menus are not just spoken visual menus: a case study of "unavailable" menu items. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010. pp. 3319-3324.

“Auditory menus can supplement or replace visual menus to enhance usability and accessibility. Despite the rapid increase of research on auditory displays, more is still needed to optimize the auditory-specific aspects of these implementations. In particular, there are several menu attributes and features that are often displayed visually, but that are not or poorly conveyed in the auditory version of the menu. Here, we report on two studies aimed at determining how best to render the important concept of an unavailable menu item. In Study 1, 23 undergraduates navigated a Microsoft Word-like auditory menu with a mix of available and unavailable items. For unavailable items, using whisper was favored over attenuated voice or saying "unavailable". In Study 2, 26 undergraduates navigated a novel auditory menu. With practice, whispering unavailable items was more effective than skipping unavailable items. Results are discussed in terms of acoustic theory and cognitive menu selection theory.”

2009

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Wyche, Susan P., Caine, Kelly E., Davison, Benjamin K., Patel, Shwetak N., Arteaga, Michael and Grinter, Rebecca E. (2009): Sacred imagery in techno-spiritual design. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 55-58.

“Despite increased knowledge about how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are used to support religious and spiritual practices, designers know little about how to design technologies for faith-related purposes. Our research suggests incorporating sacred imagery into techno-spiritual applications can be useful in guiding development. We illustrate this through the design and evaluation of a mobile phone application developed to support Islamic prayer practices. Our contribution is to show how religious imagery can be used in the design of applications that go beyond the provision of functionality to connect people to the experience of religion.”

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Jeon, Myounghoon, Davison, Benjamin K., Nees, Michael A., Wilson, Jeff and Walker, Bruce N. (2009): Enhanced auditory menu cues improve dual task performance and are preferred with in-vehicle technologies. In: Schmidt, Albrecht, Dey, Anind K., Seder, Thomas and Juhlin, Oskar (eds.) Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications - AutomotiveUI 2009 21-22 September , 2009, Essen, Germany. pp. 91-98.

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