Title:
Sonifying the Solar System

dc.contributor.author Quinton, Michael
dc.contributor.author McGregor, Iain
dc.contributor.author Benyon, David
dc.contributor.corporatename International Community for Auditory Display
dc.date.accessioned 2017-03-29T13:07:56Z
dc.date.available 2017-03-29T13:07:56Z
dc.date.issued 2016-07
dc.description Presented at the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016)
dc.description Presented at the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016) July 2-8, 2016, in Canberra, Australia
dc.description.abstract Sound is potentially an effective way of analysing data and it is possible to simultaneously interpret layers of sounds and identify changes. Multiple attempts to use sound with scientific data have been made, with varying levels of success. On many occasions this was done without including the end user during the development. In this study a sonified model of the 8 planets of our solar system was built and tested using an end user approach. The sonification was created for the Esplora Planetarium, which is currently being constructed in Malta. The data requirements were gathered from a member of the planetarium staff, and 12 end users, as well as the planetarium representative tested the sonification. The results suggest that listeners were able to discern various planetary characteristics without requiring any additional information. Three out of eight sound design parameters did not represent characteristics successfully. These issues have been identified and further development will be conducted in order to improve the model.
dc.identifier.citation Quinton, M., McGregor, I., Benyon, D. "Sonifying the Solar System". Presented at the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2016), July 3-7, 2016, Australian National University, Canberra. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2016.003
dc.identifier.doi 10.21785/icad2016.003
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/56572
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.publisher.original International Community on Auditory Display
dc.publisher.original International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD)
dc.relation.ispartof http://hdl.handle.net/1853/56560
dc.relation.ispartofseries International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
dc.rights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject Auditory display
dc.subject Space data
dc.subject Solar system
dc.title Sonifying the Solar System
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.corporatename Sonification Lab
local.relation.ispartofseries International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
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