End-user development of sonifications using soundscapes
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Wolf, KatieAnna
Gliner, Genna
Fiebrink, Rebecca
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Abstract
Designing sonifications requires knowledge in many domains including
sound design, sonification design, and programming. Thus
end users typically do not create sonifications on their own, but instead work with sonification experts to iteratively co-design their
systems. However, once a sonification system is deployed there is
little a user can do to make adjustments. In this work, we present
an approach for sonification system design that puts end users in
the control of the design process by allowing them to interactively
generate, explore, and refine sonification designs. Our approach
allows a user to start creating sonifications simply by providing
an example soundscape (i.e., an example of what they might want
their sonification to sound like), and an example dataset illustrating properties of the data they would like to sonify. The user is then provided with the ability to employ automated or semi-automated
design of mappings from features of the data to soundscape controls.
To make this possible, we describe formal models for soundscape,
data, and sonification, and an optimization-based method for creating sonifications that is informed by design principles outlined
in past auditory display research.
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2015-07
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