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Auditory affordances in the intensive treatment unit

Auditory affordances in the intensive treatment unit
Auditory affordances in the intensive treatment unit
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.
alarms, affordances, methodology, itu
0003-6870
389-394
Stanton, Neville
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Edworthy, Judy
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Stanton, Neville
351a44ab-09a0-422a-a738-01df1fe0fadd
Edworthy, Judy
33e0c294-a252-4fd1-8d1b-570b5fa42212

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).

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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.

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Published date: October 1998
Keywords: alarms, affordances, methodology, itu

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Local EPrints ID: 76086
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/76086
ISSN: 0003-6870
PURE UUID: 63d589bf-5e6f-4c1b-a360-9f986bb68189
ORCID for Neville Stanton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8562-3279

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:54

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Author: Neville Stanton ORCID iD
Author: Judy Edworthy

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