Although visual perception is dominant on motor perception, control and learning, auditory information can enhance and modulate perceptual as well as motor processes in a multifaceted manner. During last decades new methods of auditory augmentation had been developed with movement sonification as one of the most recent approaches expanding auditory movement information also to usually mute phas...

Atmospherics/Weather Works is an interdisciplinary project in the sonification of storms and other meteorological events generated directly from data produced by a highly detailed and physically accurate model of weather systems used for research and forecasting. This paper discusses the background, conception, and execution of a series of sonifications of a historical hurricane and winter snow...

This paper presents a number of different sonification approaches that aim to communicate geometrical data, specifically curve shape and curvature information, of virtual 3-D objects. The system described here is part of a multi-modal augmented reality environment in which users interact with virtual models through the modalities vision, hearing and touch. An experiment designed to assess the p...

We describe a method of auditory display of complex data, object identification, and classification using digital waveguides and waveguide mesh. Our overall goal is to distinguish highly dimensional data sets from one another in such a way that reveals meaningful differences in a particular context. In this paper we provide a summary of the application of waveguide and waveguide mesh architectu...

In Security Operations Centres (SOCs), computer networks are generally monitored using a combination of anomaly detection techniques, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and data presented in visual and text-based forms. In the last two decades significant progress has been made in developing novel sonification systems to further support network monitoring tasks. A range of systems has been propo...

Sensate environments provide a medium for humans to interact with space. This interaction includes ambient/passive triggering, performative artistic interaction and physical sensate spaces used for games and interactive entertainment. This paper examines sonic representations of data (sonification) activated by interaction, shaped by user activities and social environmental behaviours. Generati...

This article reports on an interdisciplinary research project on movement sonification for sensori-motor learning. First, we describe different research fields which have contributed to movement sonification, from music technology including gesture-controlled sound synthesis, sonic interaction design, to research on sensori-motor learning with auditory-feedback. In particular, we propose to dis...

This paper introduces AcouMotion as a new hard-/software system for combining human body motion, tangible interfaces and sonification to a closed-loop human computer interface that allows non-visual motor control by using sonification (non-speech auditory displays) as major feedback channel. AcouMotion’s main components are (i) a sensor device for measuring motion parameters (ii) a computer sim...

This paper describes the interface design of our AeSon (Aesthetic Sonification) Toolkit motivated by user-centred customisation of the aesthetic representation and scope of the data. The interface design is developed from 3 premises that distinguish our approach from more ubiquitous sonification methodologies. Firstly, we prioritise interaction both from the perspective of changing scale, scope...

Previous work on the production and test of various sonifications has shown that adding a sonification to an interface can assist the execution of a variety of operator tasks [1,2,3]. However, it has also shown that in some cases sonifications can have little benefit and may reduce performance in some areas [4]. This implies that choosing the information to encode and the type of sonification t...