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A comparison of voice controlled and mouse controlled web browsing

Author(s) -

Kevin Christian,

Bill Kules,

Ben Shneiderman,

Adel Youssef

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

digital repository at the university of maryland (university of maryland college park)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISBN - 1-58113-313-8

DOI - 10.1145/354324.354345

Subject(s) - computer science , hypertext , web navigation , web browser , world wide web , multimedia , numbering , human–computer interaction , the internet , speech recognition , programming language

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational Computing. This within subjects study with 18 subjects compared voice browsing with traditional mouse-based browsing. It attempted to identify which of three common hypertext forms (linear slide show, grid/tiled map, and hierarchical menu) are well suited to voice navigation, and whether voice navigation is helped by numbering links. The study shows that voice control adds approximately 50% to the performance time for certain types of tasks. Subjective satisfaction measures indicate that for voice browsing, textual links are preferable to numbered links.

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