Auditory affordances in the intensive treatment unit
Stanton, Neville and Edworthy, Judy (1998) Auditory affordances in the intensive treatment unit. Applied Ergonomics, 29, (5), 389-394. (doi:10.1016/S0003-6870(97)00064-1).
Download
Full text not available from this repository.
Description/Abstract
This paper describes the study of auditory affordances in the intensive treatment unit (ITU). The study compared representative sounds with traditional auditory warnings. Recognition performance for both the new and old warnings was compared. Recognition performance of the ITU staff was worse with the new set than with the old set of warnings, whereas the reverse was found with non-ITU staff. This suggests that although previous experience of the alarms aid recognition, there might be other more intuitive sounds which could be used on the ITU.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 0003-6870 (print) |
| Related URLs: | |
| Keywords: | alarms, affordances, methodology, itu |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RF Otorhinolaryngology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment |
| Item ID: | 76086 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 03:32 |
| Contributors: | Stanton, Neville (Author) Edworthy, Judy (Author) |
| Date: | October 1998 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/76086 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
