BIRDSONGIFICATION: CONTEXTUAL AND COMPLEMENTARY SONIFICATION FOR BIOLOGY VISUALIZATION
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Elmquist, Elias
Ejdbo, Malin
Bock, Alexander
Thaler, David S.
Ynnerman, Anders
Rönnberg, Niklas
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Abstract
Choosing whether to represent data in an abstract or concrete manner
through sonification is generally dependent on the applicability
of the dataset and personal preference of the designer. For supporting
a visualization with a high level of abstraction, a sonification
can purposefully act as a complement by giving concrete
contextual cues to the data representation with the use of auditory
icons. This paper presents a case study of using bird songs as auditory
icons to give context to a biology visualization, and explores
how additional information of the bird species can be conveyed
together with the auditory icons with parameter mapping sonification.
The auditory icons are used as a foundation to convey
additional information of the dataset, either by creating a parametric
auditory icon, or by adding an additional sonification that
accompanies the auditory icon. A user evaluation was conducted
to validate and compare the different sonification mappings. The
results show that there is a subjective difference of how participants
perceived the sonifications, where the participants preferred
sonifications that had a concrete mapping design. The sonification
approaches that are explored in this study have the potential to be
applied to more general sonification designs.
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2024-06
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