Jacko J A, Rosenthal D J
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Florida International University, Miami 33199, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1997 Jun;84(3 Pt 2):1223-33. doi: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.3c.1223.
An investigation was conducted to characterize how children ages 6 through 9 identify auditory icons present in educational software. 24 subjects were require to map auditory icons to visual icons, both present in a computer interface. The interface used in the experiment was constructed with Visual Basic and involved 40 auditory icons, 40 corresponding visual icons, and 66 extraneous visual icons. It was hypothesized that older children would be better able to map the auditory icons to visual icons due to more extensive exposure to everyday sounds. The results supported the hypothesis and suggestions for additional research were provided.
开展了一项调查,以了解6至9岁的儿童如何识别教育软件中的听觉图标。24名受试者被要求将听觉图标与视觉图标进行匹配,这些图标都出现在计算机界面中。实验中使用的界面是用Visual Basic构建的,包含40个听觉图标、40个相应的视觉图标和66个无关的视觉图标。研究假设,由于年长儿童对日常声音的接触更为广泛,他们将更有能力将听觉图标与视觉图标进行匹配。结果支持了这一假设,并提供了进一步研究的建议。