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Individuals from the net have helped me with my research in various
ways,m so I'm just announcing that the results are now available. My
thesis is available for anonymous ftp from snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca,
in the pub/hci/theses directory. It's available in PostScript
(Portigal.ps.Z) or a Mac self-extracting archive (Word 5.0a),
binhexed, Portigal.sea.hqx.Z.
Both files are compressed using Unix compress.

Title: Auralization of Document Structure
Author: Steve Portigal
Degree: MSc
Date: Jan. 1994

Abstract:

        An experiment compared the effectiveness of auditory, visual,
and combination cues to convey document structure. Subjects
demonstrated an equivalent level of understanding of the document
structure and its content with either a combination cue or a visual
cue. Subjects required more time to answer questions in the
combination condition than in the visual condition.  This suggests a
greater cognitive effort is required. A sound-only condition has the
poorest performance both in response time and in the subject's answers
to questions about the document's structure and its content. Subjects
were grouped based on whether or not they replayed sounds as a
retention tactic.  Subjects who replayed sounds did better than
subjects who did not. These results contribute to our understanding of
potential uses of sound in user interfaces. The specific cues used
here for this particular task do not appear promising. Future research
to determine how to be make use of sound must carefully consider user
tactics for processing sound cues.

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