Feeling what you hear: Task-irrelevant sounds modulate tactile perception delivered via a touch screen

Journal article

Several recent studies of crossmodal perception have demonstrated that the presentation of task-irrelevant auditory stimuli can modulate the number of tactile stimuli that a person perceives. In the present study, we attempted to extend these findings concerning audiotactile interactions in human information processing to a touch screen device. Two experiments were conducted in order to address the following research questions: 1) Can the presentation of taskirrelevant sounds be used to modif...

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Authors: Lee, J; Spence, C

• Journal: Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 145-156
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s12193-009-0014-8
• EISSN: 1783-8738
• ISSN: 1783-7677
• Language: English
• Keywords: User interfaces; Dual-task performance; Multimodal interaction; Touch-screen; Attention; Multisensory feedback