Investigating Effective Methods of Designing Sonifications

Quinton, Michael; McGregor, Iain; Benyon, David

doi:10.21785/icad2018.011

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“…Sonification can represent any kind of information and its unique communication and engagement capabilities could be considered and included when developing institutional education materials to normalize the use of sonifications in the next generation of digital natives. As highlighted by Quinton et al [41], teaching how to listen seems crucial in the acceptance of sonification as a data analysis tool.…”

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Sonifigrapher. Sonified Light Curve Synthesizer

Riber¹

2019

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019)

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In an attempt to contribute to the constant feedback existing between science and music, this work describes the design strategies used in the development of the virtual synthesizer prototype called Sonifigrapher. Trying to achieve new ways of creating experimental music through the exploration of exoplanet data sonifications, this software provides an easy-to-use graph-to-sound quadraphonic converter, designed for the sonification of the light curves from NASA’s publicly-available exoplanet archive. Based on some features of the first analog tape recorder samplers, the prototype allows end-users to load a light curve from the archive and create controlled audio spectra making use of additive synthesis sonification. It is expected to be useful in creative, educational and informational contexts as part of an experimental and interdisciplinary development project for sonification tools, oriented to both non-specialized and specialized audiences.

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Sonifigrapher. Sonified Light Curve Synthesizer

Riber¹

2019

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019)

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“…Para la generación de sonificaciones, se han desarrollado en las últimas décadas todo tipo de herramientas que han tratado de facilitar y normalizar la representación de datos mediante sonidos (Quinton et al, 2018).…”

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Sonificación y periodismo: la representación de datos mediante sonidos

Mateos

López

2023

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La sonificación es una técnica de representación de datos mediante sonidos, que se ha empleado en distintas disciplinas, incluido el periodismo, de forma más intensiva en los últimos 30 años. Su uso con contenidos periodísticos está íntimamente ligado a prácticas en otros campos, como la representación de grandes volúmenes de datos en algunas disciplinas científicas, así como la interpretación sonora de series de datos para personas con discapacidad visual. Este artículo pretende efectuar una aproximación teórica a la sonificación, ofrecer una panorámica sobre su evolución y sobre los retos de su uso en el contexto de la información de actualidad. Incluye una introducción general sobre la sonificación, sus elementos y técnicas principales, así como un análisis bibliográfico tanto a nivel académico como profesional. Como resultado, se presenta una panorámica de trabajos basados en sonificaciones: en primer lugar, aplicados a producciones científicas y a personas con discapacidad; y basadas en las anteriores, se presentan ejemplos específicos de sonificaciones periodísticas, así como descripciones de herramientas empleadas para desarrollar esta técnica. La sonificación se ha demostrado útil como representación alternativa para discriminar diferencias en grandes volúmenes de datos. A cambio, buena parte de las producciones y herramientas usadas son aún experimentales. Queda aún pendiente su conversión en una forma masiva de representar datos, debido a la complejidad de la percepción humana del sonido, la dificultad para conciliar sus valores emotivos e informativos, y la necesidad de formar al público en el uso de esta técnica.

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“…Sonification design can be complex, as it has an open-ended approach which allows creativity. This can be a disadvantage, as experimentation might lead to data misrepresentation, rendering a sonification difficult to interpret [1]. A sonification has to be comprehensible to the user.…”

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Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere

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McGregor

Benyon

2020

Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference

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This study investigates the effectiveness of user design methods to create a sonification for an astronomer who analyses exoplanet meteorological data situated in habitable zones. Requirements about the astronomer's work, the dataset and how to sonify it utilising Grounded Theory were identified. Parameter mapping sonification was used to represent effective transiting radii measurements through subtractive synthesis and spatialization. The design was considered to be effective, allowing the instantaneous identification of a water feature overlooked on a visual graph, even when noise within the dataset overlapped the source signal. The results suggest that multiple parameter mappings provide richer auditory stimuli and semantic qualities in order to allow an improved understanding of the dataset.

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Investigating Effective Methods of Designing Sonifications

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Sonifigrapher. Sonified Light Curve Synthesizer

Sonifigrapher. Sonified Light Curve Synthesizer

Sonificación y periodismo: la representación de datos mediante sonidos

Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere

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