Description: Future human-computer interfaces will use more than just graphical output to display information. This paper suggests that sound and graphics together can be used to improve interaction. The authors designed and experimentally evaluated a new set of menus with much more salient audio feedback to solve this problem. The results from the experiment showed a significant reduction in the subjective effort required to use the new sonically-enhanced menus along with significantly reduced error recovery times. A significantly larger number of errors were also corrected with sound. Author(s) : Stephan A. Brewster and Murray G. Crease
