EEG-based measures of auditory saliency in a complex context

Xun Yi Huang, Fu Yin Cherng, Jung Tai King, Wen-Chieh Lin

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Abstract

Auditory saliency is an important mechanism that helps humans extract relevant information from environments. Audio notifications of mobile devices with high saliency can increase users' receptivity, yet overly high saliency could cause annoyance. Accurately measuring auditory saliency of a notification is critical for evaluating its usability. Previous studies adopted behavioral methods. However, their results may not accurately reflect auditory saliency as humans' perception of auditory saliency often involves complicated cognitive processes. Thus, we propose an electroencephalography (EEG)-based approach that can complement behavioral studies to provide a more nuanced analysis of auditory saliency. We evaluated our method by conducting an EEG experiment that measured the mismatch negativity and P3a of the sounds in realistic scenarios. We also conducted a behavioral experiment to link the EEG-based method with the behavioral method. The results suggested that EEG can provide detailed information about how human perceive auditory saliency and complement the behavioral measures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2019
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450368254
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2019
Event21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2019 - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 1 Oct 20194 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2019

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2019
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei
Period1/10/194/10/19

Keywords

  • Auditory saliency
  • Brain-computer interface
  • Notification

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