The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of sonification research, including the current status of the field and a proposed research agenda. This paper was prepared by an interdisciplinary group of researchers gathered at the request of the National Science Foundation in the fall of 1997 in association with the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD). NSF Sonification Whi...

We present a new package which allows R to produce sound from data. The packages uses Csound, an extremely powerful and freely available multi platform program for sound creation. Sonification is a relatively new branch of data analysis, so even the basic set of concepts is still in flux. Our toolkit hopefully makes research into different options for sonification methods more accessible and he...

Through advanced recording and simulation possibilities the amount of 3D movement data is constantly growing. This data type stems from different origins ranging from sports, HCI and music research (body movements and gestures). Although these data sources look at first glance very disparate, they are in fact structurally very similar since they represent dynamic processes in 3D space with many...

Sound and motion are intrinsically related, by their physical nature and through the link between auditory perception and motor control. If sound provides information about the characteristics of a movement, a movement can also be influenced or triggered by a sound pattern. This thesis investigates how this link can be reinforced by means of interactive sonification. Sonification, the use of so...

Sonification—the representation of data relations in sound relations—is attracting increasing attention within the human factors community as a way of providing human operators of real-time processes with continuous information about the state of a system. This is particularly needed in anesthesia, where the anesthetist must divide attention across a wide variety of tasks. Efforts to design eff...

Patients with lack of proprioception are unable to build and maintain ‘internal models’ of their limbs and monitor their limb movements because these patients do not receive the appropriate information from muscles and joints. This project was undertaken to determine if auditory signals can provide proprioceptive information normally obtained through muscle and joint receptors. Sonification of ...

Ambient information systems have been investigated widely in the visual modality, but ambient sonification systems are rare and investigation is limited by comparison with ambient visualisations. However, the auditory modality is well-suited to the task of interpreting quantitative information communicated through sonification, while not requiring interruption to the user’s current actions, as ...

In this paper we develop a sonification model following theModelbased Sonification approach that allows to scan high-dimensional data distributions by means of a physical object in the hand of the user. In the sonification model, the user is immersed in a 3D space of invisible but acoustically active objects which can be excited by him. Tangible computing allows to identify the excitation objec...

Chemical spectra are an important part of how research chemists analyse the outcomes of experiments. However these complex spectra can be very difficult and time consuming to analyse. This paper outlines an investigation into using sonification to improve the understanding and ease of analysis of chemical spectral data. The project specifically uses sonification techniques to display Nuclear Ma...

This paper presents a Modular Computer Vision Sonification Model which is a general framework for acquisition, exploration and sonification of visual information to support visually impaired people. The model exploits techniques from Computer Vision and aims to convey as much information as possible about the image to the user, including color, edges and what we refer to as Orientation maps and...