Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'02) An Environment for Studying the Impact of Spatialising Sonified Graphs on Data Comprehension London, England July 10-July 12 ISBN: 0-7695-1656-4
We describe AudioCave, an environment for exploring the impact of spatialising sonified graphs on a set of numerical data comprehension tasks. Its design builds on findings regarding the effectiveness of sonified graphs for numerical data overview and discovery by visually impaired and blind students. We demonstrate its use as a test bed for comparing the approach of accessing a single sonified numerical datum at a time to one where multiple sonified numerical data can be accessed concurrently. Results from this experiment show that concurrent access facilitates the tackling of our set multivariate data comprehension tasks. AudioCave also demonstrates how the spatialisation of the sonified graphs provides opportunities for sharing the representation. We present two experiments investigating users solving set data comprehension tasks collaboratively by sharing the data representation.
Index Terms:
Visually impaired users, sonified graphs, spatial sound, data overview and discovery, gesture tracking, collaboration, awareness, and empirical studies
Citation:
Rameshsharma Ramloll, Stephen Brewster, "An Environment for Studying the Impact of Spatialising Sonified Graphs on Data Comprehension," iv, pp.167, Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'02), 2002 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||