• Home > Journal Search > Past Issues

Past Issues

Endnote RefWorks Scholar's Aid Excel TXT
Vol.12, No.4, 531 ~ 545, 2009
Title
The effect of the human voice that is consistent with context and the mechanical melody on user`s subjective experience in mobile phones
 
Abstract
In the past, objective usability was one of the most important aspects when user used system. But nowadays user`s subjective experiences are getting more critical element than objective usability in HCI(human-computer interaction). Most people own their mobile phone and use it frequently these days. It is especially important to make user`s subjective experiences more positive when using devices like mobile phones people frequently carry and interact with. This study investigates whether the interfaces which express the emotion give more positive experiences to users. Researchers created mobile phone prototypes to compare the effect of mechanical melody feedback(the major auditory feedbacks on mobile phones) and emotional voice feedback(recorded human voice). Participants experienced four kinds of mobile phone prototypes(no feedback, mechanical melody feedback, emotional voice feedback and dual feedback) and evaluated their experienced usability, hedonic quality and preference. The result suggests that person`s perceptional fun and hedonic quality were getting increased in the phone which gave the emotional voice feedback than the mechanical melody feedback. Nevertheless, the preference was evaluated lower in the emotional voice feedback condition than the others.
Key Words
auditory feedback. hedonic quality, user experience, mobile phone, human voice, 청각 피드백, 유희적 사용성, 경험적 사용성, 휴대전화, 사람 목소리
| PDF

로고이미지