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Sonification of Spatial Data

Nasir, Tooba, Roberts, Jonathan C. (2007) Sonification of Spatial Data. In: Martens, William L. and Quesnel, Rene and Scavone, Gary, eds. The 13th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2007). . pp. 112-119. ICAD, Schulich School of Music McGill University, Canada (KAR id:14576)

Abstract

Sonification is the use of sound and speech to represent information. There are many sonification examples in the literature from simple realizations such as a Geiger counter to representations of complex geological features. The data that is being represented can be either spatial or non-spatial. Specifically, spatial data contains positional information; the position either refers to an exact location in the physical world or in an abstract virtual world. Likewise, sound itself is spatial: the source of the sound can always be located. There is obviously a synergy between spatial data and sonification. Hence, this paper reviews the sonification of spatial data and investigates this synergy. We look at strategies for presentation, exploration and what spatial interfaces and devices developers have used to interact with the sonifications. Furthermore we discuss the duality between spatial data and various sonification methodologies.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Uncontrolled keywords: Sonification, spatial data sonification, information representation
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2008 18:05 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14576 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Roberts, Jonathan C..

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