Title :
Geo-sonf: Spatial sonification of contour maps
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Abstract :
Sonification is the use of sound to represent information. We have developed and evaluated a tool for interactive exploration of spatial data through the use of spatial sound and a spatial user interface. In this paper we describe two approaches for spatial sonification of spatial data: (1) person-centric spatial sonification and (2) space-centric spatial sonification. An evaluation of the designs is presented with the results.
Keywords :
audio user interfaces; cartography; geographic information systems; contour maps; person-centric spatial sonification; space-centric spatial sonification; spatial data; spatial sound; spatial user interface; Azimuth; Data visualization; Ear; Geographic Information Systems; Guidelines; Headphones; Loudspeakers; Performance analysis; Taxonomy; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Haptic Audio visual Environments and Games, 2009. HAVE 2009. IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Lecco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4217-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4218-8
DOI :
10.1109/HAVE.2009.5356116
