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September 20, 2004
What sounds do people love and hate?
The sounds users hear can change how they navigate a web site. We demonstrated this in three experiments a while back. In general, people click on links or select paths that play pleasing feedback sounds. Our data showed an even more dramatic avoidance of negative sounds. Yes, sounds have an impact on user behavior. But what sounds do people love and hate? We wanted to find out, so we ran a large-scale exploratory study (over 700 participants, over 15,000 sound evaluations). A short article about our results appeared in the newest issue of interactions magazine, pages 64 to 66. Authored by our lab members Jon Effrat, Lisa Chan, myself, and Ling Kong, this article briefly describes our sound study and some implications for design. Just for fun, our article also gives a link to the "most loved" and "most hated" sounds in our study. You can listen for yourself. But be warned: The bad sounds are really awful. Article: What Sounds Do People Love and Hate? Most loved and hated sounds: http://credibility.stanford.edu/sounds/results.htmlPosted by at September 20, 2004 09:20 AM
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