The field of sonification has progressed greatly over the past twenty years and currently
constitutes an established area of research. This article aims at exploiting and organizing …

Objectives This paper summarizes much of the research that is applicable to the design of
auditory alarms in a medical context. It also summarizes research that demonstrates that …

This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have
tackled the problem of monitoring real-time data streams and concludes with some …

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Alarms are used in many clinical applications, but they are often less than optimal because
the design and implementation of alarms has not always taken the cognitive capacity and …

The high number of false positive alarms has long been known to be a serious problem in
critical care medicine–yet it remains unresolved. At the same time, threats to patient safety …

Although there are powerful incentives for creating alarm management programmes to
reduce 'alarm fatigue', they do not provide guidance on how to reduce the likelihood that …

While developments in sound production hardware now make the creation of auditory
graphs possible for casual users of personal computers, some of the same pitfalls to …

While there has been a lot of research on the usability of reminders and alarms in the work
context, the home has been somewhat neglected despite the importance of reminder …