School of Informatics School Research Conference 2003 Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers1 Noise, mobility, accessibility, and other stuff Paul Vickers research activity

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers2 Last year In 2002 I talked about –Auditory displays Program auralisation Sonification Audio in surgery –Web design for children –Accessibility –Auditory displays for the elderly –Mobile usability

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers3 Program auralisation Publications –Vickers, P. & Alty, J. L. (2002). “Using Music to Communicate Computing Information.” Interacting with Computers 14(5): –Vickers, P. & Alty, J. L. (2002). “Musical Program Auralisation: A Structured Approach to Motif Design.” Interacting with Computers 14(5): –Vickers, P. & Alty, J. L. (2002). “When Bugs Sing.” Interacting with Computers 14(6): –Vickers, P. & Alty, J. L. (2003). “Siren Songs and Swan Songs: Debugging with Music.” Communications of the ACM, in press 46(7). 2 MSc students working on Java auralisations Preparing EPSRC bid to look at auditory/visual external representations in program comprehension

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers4 EARCADE External Auditory Representations in Program Comprehension and Debugging –To compare auralisations with visualisations –Program flow, data flow, data structure –Anticipate multimodal representations to be very powerful

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers5 Accessibility & AD for the elderly Publications: –Sainz-Salces, F. J., England, D. & Vickers, P. (2002). Multimodal Human-Computer Interface, in Proc Vol 2 HCI 2002: 16th British HCI Group Annual Conference, London, UK, 2-6 September. –Sainz-Salces, F. J., England, D. & Vickers, P. (2003). Household Appliances Control Device for the Elderly, in Proc ICAD '03 9th International Conference on Auditory Display, Boston, MA, 7-9 July. Reworking EPSRC bid to develop an equal opportunities interface ACM Conference on Universal Usability 2003 –Program Committee –Submitted a paper: “Designing for the elderly and visually impaired” (Sainz Salces, F.J., England, D., & Vickers, P.) Submitted short paper to HCI 2003 “Household Appliance Control: Designing for the Elderly”

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers6 Domotics for the Elderly (PhD project) Designing interfaces that can support independent living for elderly and disabled people Prototype home appliance monitoring and control system Multimodal interface incorporating icons and earcons –Much more efficient than visual interface alone –Memorability of tunes an issue

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers7 Mobile usability Presentations: –Buranatrived, J. & Vickers, P. (2002). An Investigation of the Impact of Mobile Phone and PDA Interfaces on the Usability of Mobile-Commerce Applications, in Proc Proc IWNA5: 5th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances, Liverpool, UK, October. ISBN –Clement, P. & Vickers, P. (2002). From Server to PDA: An HCI Perspective on Porting Wireless Roaming Business Applications, in Proc 5th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA5), Liverpool, UK, October, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. ISBN Organising committee of IWNA 6 MSc students: mobile device location sensing, and overcoming lack of screen space on mobile devices

School Research Conference 2003 School of Informatics Noise and other stuffDr Paul Vickers8 Auditory Texture Evaluation Support of online purchasing of apples Sal Fiore and I are setting up experiment to see if the addition of the sounds of biting apples to an e- commerce site: –Increases users’ ability to generate accurate expectations of apple characteristics –And/or increases users’ confidence in their choice of apples for online purchasing