Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The purpose of this study is to confirm whether monaural auditory displays that indicate leftward and rightward directionsto users can be used together with speech sounds in order to convey positional information to users. We conducted twoexperiments; experiment 1 was for investigating how a speech sound followed by auditory displays can convey threepositions, right, center, and left, to participants, and experiment 2 was for exploring the effects of the durations of theseauditory displays on how users interpreted these pieces of positional information. As a result of experiment 1, a speechsound followed by monaural auditory displays with durations of 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75 sec succeeded in conveying the threepieces of positional information to users. As a result of experiment 2, the speech sound followed by monaural auditorydisplays with durations of 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 or 1.00 sec was interpreted by users correctly.