Christiane Glatz’s research while affiliated with University of Tübingen and other places

... The organizing committee of the third IMI workshop consists of the following researchers and professional musicians. Each of them contributes long-term experiences in organizing workshops including Handling IoT in HCI (IoT '17), Reading the Mobile Brain (MUM '17) [5], Designing Assistive Environments for Manufacturing (PETRA '17 -'21) 4 , SmartObjects '18 (CHI '18) [21] and SmartObjects '22 (ISS '22) [25], a series of workshops and events about vulnerable road users [13,14,19,23,24,30] as well as several local workshops for bands and musicians. ...

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Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Adaptive Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments

... Note that moving cues have been found to direct spatial attention in visual, auditory, and tactile modalities particularly effectively (Glatz & Chuang, 2019;Hillstrom & Yantis, 1994;Ho et al., 2014). Ho and colleagues (2014) presented moving tactile cues at the waist to direct the participant's attention in a driving scenario. ...

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Spatial attention modulates time perception on the human torso

... The dynamic-pitch cue provides a more accurate mapping to the imminent visual stimuli. Glatz et al. (2019) found that looming auditory cues induced greater brain activity to visual targets and faster reaction times than constant auditory cues, which indicates that dynamic sounds are more referent to looming visual targets. Only proper dynamic urgency mapping can enhance driving performance. ...

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Novel sonification designs: Compressed, iconic, and pitch-dynamic auditory icons boost driving behavior

... Considering a previous study showing that the driving context affects preferences for AV decisions [10] and the present findings demonstrating that the driving context affects the driver's intention to take over, cars should come with personalizable intelligent systems and takeover decisions should be fostered by informing drivers that the emergency affects the safety of drivers. For instance, in future AVs, the warning sound for a takeover request could use a looming sound to enhance the perceived risk of drivers who showed effectiveness in emergency braking [60]; additionally, information about the AV's driving intention, when only the AV's decision influences the safety of the driver, could be provided to enhance their situational awareness and willingness to take over without notifying the driver of the AV's driving intention when safety is guaranteed to prevent drivers from leaving the decision to the AV. Additionally, the findings of the present study suggest that in the future, even in Level-4 autonomous driving, AVs should be designed to hand over control to the driver when decisions are directly related to their safety; if the driver does leave a decision to the AV, they should be asked to allow the car to decide on its own even in life-threatening situations. ...

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Willingness to Take Responsibility: Self-Sacrifice versus Sacrificing Others in Takeover Decisions during Autonomous Driving

... This aligns with Yatani et al. [89], who found that handheld tactile maps combining tactile feedback with audio instructions offer superior spatial orientation compared to audio-only feedback. Additionally, the study revealed differences in the effectiveness of verbal audio vs. auditory icons, aligning with the findings of Glatz et al. [41], who found auditory icons to be more effective for conveying contextual information, while verbal audio was better for urgent requests. Further, by comparing the effectiveness of auditory, visual, and combined audio-visual feedback, the combination of audio and visual feedback improved participants' situation awareness more than visual feedback alone [66]. ...

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Light My Way: Developing and Exploring a Multimodal Interface to Assist People With Visual Impairments to Exit Highly Automated Vehicles

... interaction between human and machines can be established via a microphone (based on speech) to provide a more natural, convenient, and efficient speech-based communication (Chuang et al. 2017;Munir et al. 2019). Since a smart home is made up of connected smart objects, a controller should be embedded for each object of the smart home such as light, sound, and door. ...

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Detecting Persian speaker-independent voice commands based on LSTM and ontology in communicating with the smart home appliances

... Although the effect on driver reaction times is not as great as when using touch screens, it is worse than the impact of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs [39]. Infotainment systems bring many desirable features to users, but they could take away attentional demand from the primary driving task if they are poorly designed [27]. According to Lentz et al. [24], the problems users might encounter with poorly designed UIs are difficulty locating the correct option they need, unintended invocation of actions, tedious sequences Marinissen & Bazilinskyy of interactions, error-prone repetitive actions or being overwhelmed by too many choices. ...

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Visual feedback for in-car voice assistants

... • Auditory Alerts: These use sound, such as beeps or alarms, to warn drivers of hazards, with their effectiveness depending on factors like sound frequency, amplitude, and duration [10]. Properly designed auditory alerts improve safety by enhancing driver focus and response [18,21]. ...

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Evaluating the Impact of Warning Modalities and False Alarms in Pedestrian Crossing Alert System

... When listeners are asked to predict the arrival time of a looming sound, they exhibit a systematic anticipatory error and perceive that the source has arrived when it is still some distance away 1 (Neuhoff, Hamilton, Gittleson, & Mejia, 2014;Neuhoff, Long, & Worthington, 2012;Neuhoff, Planisek, & Seifritz, 2009;Riskind, Kleiman, Seifritz, & Neuhoff, 2014;Rosenblum et al., 1987Rosenblum et al., , 1993Schiff & Oldak, 1990). This bias can provide a selective advantage by creating a temporal "margin of safety" that affords slightly more time than expected to initiate defensive behaviors in response to the looming object (Freiberg, Tually, & Crassini, 2001;Glatz, Bulthoff, & Chuang, 2014;Neuhoff, 1998Neuhoff, , 1999Neuhoff, , 2001. Studies on sex differences have shown that women tend to exhibit a larger looming bias than men (Grassi, 2010;Schiff & Oldak, 1990) and these findings are likely due to sex differences in the ability to deal with approaching threat (e.g. ...

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Looming sounds are perceived as faster than receding sounds