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In-Vehicle Spatial Auditory Displays: Reducing reaction times, errors and cognitive load




August 2012
8 pages
In-Vehicle Spatial Auditory Displays: Reducing reaction times, errors and cognitive load

Spatial Auditory Displays (SADs) can help provide both a more agreeable and a safer driving experience. Among their benefits are reduction of reaction times, errors and cognitive load. By providing drivers with auditory clues that associate different activities and instructions with specific locations, spatial auditory displays help drivers “intuitively” identify speakers, the sources of instructions, and even the location and relative trajectory and velocity of danger.

Contents

Introduction — Cognitive load — Spatial auditory displays — Improvements to driver performance — Conclusion [+]





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Author
Scott Pennock
spennock@qnx.com

Scott Pennock

Scott Pennock is Senior Hands-Free Standards Specialist at QNX.

Before joining QNX, he was a Lead Acoustic Test Engineer at Apple, a Senior Systems Engineer at OnStar researching speech enhancement technologies, and a Speech Technologies Specialist at Lucent, also working on speech enhancment technologies.

He holds a B.S. in Experimental/Cognitive Psychology from Michigan State University, and an Masters degree in Applied Psychology from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

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