Hold that thought: are spearcons less disruptive than spoken reminders?

Maria Wolters; Karl Isaac; Jason Doherty

doi:10.1145/2212776.2223703

Hold that thought: are spearcons less disruptive than spoken reminders?

Maria Wolters, Karl Isaac, Jason Doherty

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Abstract

Speech reminders can severely disrupt list recall. Spearcons, time-compressed speech messages, might be less disruptive because they are much shorter. In this study, we asked 24 younger participants to recall 64 short lists of digit, animal, food, or furniture names. List items were presented one at a time; the number of items presented depended on individual digit spans. Spearcons affected list recall to the same extent as speech. However, people with higher digit spans had significantly worse recall. This could be due to short-term memory overload or the longer presentation time of long lists. We discuss implications for menu design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1745-1750
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1016-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223703
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012
Event	2012 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Austin, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 Conference number: 30

Conference

Conference	2012 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	5/05/12 → 10/05/12

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

irrelevant speech effect
reminders
spearcon
speech
working memory

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10.1145/2212776.2223703

p1745-wolters

MMH: MultimemoHome: Multimodal reminders within the home
Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & Wolters, M. (Co-investigator)
EPSRC
1/09/09 → 28/02/13
Project: Research

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note = "Funding Information: This research was funded by grant no. EP/G060614/1 from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. We thank our participants for their time, and Ben Davison and Bruce Walker for their generous help with creating Spearcons. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2012 Authors.; 2012 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 ; Conference date: 05-05-2012 Through 10-05-2012",

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