Graphical and Non-speech Sound Metaphors in Email Browsing: An Empirical Approach. A Usability Based Study Investigating the Role of Incorporating Visual and Non-Speech Sound Metaphors to Communicate Email Data and Threads.

Graphical and Non-speech Sound Metaphors in Email Browsing: An Empirical Approach. A Usability Based Study Investigating the Role of Incorporating Visual and Non-Speech Sound Metaphors to Communicate Email Data and Threads.

This thesis investigates the effect of incorporating various information visualisation techniques and non-speech sounds (i.e. auditory icons and earcons) in email browsing. This empirical work consisted of three experimental phases. The first experimental phase aimed at finding out the most usable v...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alharbi, Saad T.
Other Authors: Rigas, Dimitrios I.
Language:en
Published: University of Bradford 2010
Subjects:
Information visualisation
Non-speech sounds
Email browsing
Auditory icons
Earcons
Contextual information
Email threads
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4244

Internet

http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4244

Similar Items