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Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04)
A Path Based Model for Sonification
London, England
July 14-July 16
ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0
Keith M. Franklin, University of Kent, UK
Jonathan C. Roberts, University of Kent, UK
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.
Index Terms:
Sonification, sonifying images, path based sonification, non-visual representations
Citation:
Keith M. Franklin, Jonathan C. Roberts, "A Path Based Model for Sonification," iv, pp.865-870, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04), 2004
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