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A Path Based Model for Sonification
Keith M. Franklin and Jonathan C. Roberts
In E. Banissi, K. Borner, C. Chen, M. Dastbaz, G. Clapworthy, A. Faiola, E. Izquierdo, C. Maple, J. Roberts, C. Moore, A. Ursyn, and J.J. Zhang, editors, 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation, pages 182-196. IEEE Computer Society, July 2004.Abstract
Recently researchers have been interested in non-visual forms of presentation. Sound, touch, smell, as well as vision can be used to depict information. One important medium is sound; it can encode information for the blind or partial sighted, used to display information when it is impossible to use a screen, and the hardware is cheap and widely available. Researchers have investigated sonifying various data sources with different data types and configurations. In this paper we present a novel path-based model that can be used to describe each of these different sonifications. In summary, the path dictates the sonification tour, the data is mapped into sound via a transfer function, and the quantity of information being sonified is determined by both the span and how the abstract path is registered to the data.
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@inproceedings{1992,
author = {Keith M. Franklin and Jonathan C. Roberts },
title = {{A Path Based Model for Sonification}},
month = {July},
year = {2004},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/1992},
publication_type = {inproceedings},
submission_id = {17223_1098279458},
ISBN = {0-7695-2177-0},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
refereed = {yes},
booktitle = {8th International Conference on Information Visualisation},
editor = {E. Banissi and K. Borner and C. Chen and M. Dastbaz and G. Clapworthy and A. Faiola and E. Izquierdo and C. Maple and J. Roberts and C. Moore and A. Ursyn and J.J. Zhang},
}