Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Auditory warnings and displays: an overview, Neville A. Stanton and Judy Edworthy. Acoustics and Auditory Processes: Localizable alarms, Deborah J. Withington; Audibility of reverse alarms under hearing protectors and its prediction for normal and hearing-impaired listeners, Gary S. Robinson and John G. Casali; Extending the domain of auditory warning sounds: creative use of high-frequencies and temporal asymmetry, R.D. Patterson and A.J. Datta. Auditory Cognition: The interpretation of natural sound in the cockpit, James A. Ballas; Auditory warning affordances, Neville A. Stanton and Judy Edworthy; The perceived urgency and detection time of multizone auditory signals, Ellen C. Haas and Judy Edworthy; A psychophysiological evaluation of the perceived urgency of auditory warning signals, Jennifer L. Burt, Debbie S. Bartolome-Rull, Daniel W. Burdette and J. Raymond Comstock. Alarms in the Broader Context: Investigations of alarm mistrust under conditions of varying alarm and ongoing task criticality, James J. Bliss; Using redundancy in the design of time critical warnings: a theory-driven approach, Stephen J. Selcon; Different effects of auditory feedback in man-machine interfaces, Mattias Rauterberg; Speech-based alarm displays, Neville A. Stanton and C. Baber. Practical Issues: Designing aircraft warning systems: a case study, J.M. Noyes, A.F. Cresswell Starr and J.A. Rankin; The design and validation of attensons for a high workload environment, Elizabeth Hellier and Judy Edworthy; Observational studies of auditory warnings on the intensive care unit, Christina Meredith, Judy Edworthy and David Rose; Auditory alarms in intensive care, John Welch. Conclusions: Key topics in auditory warnings, Neville A. Stanton and Judy Edworthy; Indeces.

About the Author

Neville Stanton is Professor at the Department of Design, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK. Previously, he was a Reader in Engineering Psychology at the University of Southampton, and Visiting Fellow at the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, New York, USA He is also a Human Factors Consultant, and is editor of Human Factors in Alarm Design, 1994; Human Factors in Nuclear Safety, 1996; and Human Factors in Consumer Products, 1998, all with Taylor & Francis. Judy Edworthy is a Reader in Human Factors in the Psychology Department at the University of Plymouth. She is the author of many significant articles on auditory warnings and joint author with Austin Adams of Warning Design: A Research Prospective, 1996, Taylor & Francis.