Highlights•Sound-driven design focuses on technology and listening in
action.•Professionals involved in sound and design brings in different listening …

This textbook comprehensively covers the basic principles and most recent advances
regarding visual displays, auditory and tactile displays and controls; psychophysics; …

As socio-technological environments shape and direct listener behaviour, an ecological
account is needed that encompasses listening in complexity (ie, multiple listeners, multiple …

Objective A study of auditory displays for simulated patient monitoring compared the
effectiveness of two sound categories (alarm sounds indicating general risk categories from …

Quantitative data on the sensory environment of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and its
potential link to increased risk of delirium is limited. We examined whether higher average …

FEATURE contexts, allowing patients and nonmedical caregivers to interact with medical
procedures. With more data to process (remotely or in hospital), hospitals will also change …

Objective This research investigated whether the psychoacoustics of simultaneous masking,
which are integral to a model-checking-based method, previously developed for detecting …

Objective Address the alarm problem by redesigning, reorganizing, and reprioritizing to
better discriminate alarm sounds and displays in a hospital. Background Alarms in hospitals …

Objective In this work, we systematically evaluated the reserved alarm sounds of the IEC
60601-1-8 international medical alarm standard to determine when and how they can be …

Designing alarms to address the increasing complexity of dynamic and interconnected
systems in current socio-technological environments presents multi-faceted design …