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Blended Sonification – Sonification for Casual Information Interaction

In recent years, graphical user interfaces have become almost ubiquitous in form of notebooks, smartphones and tablets. These systems normally force the user to attend to an often very specific and narrow screen and thus squeeze the information through a chokepoint. This ties the users’ attention to the device and affects other activities and social interaction. In this paper we introduce Blend...

Beacon Signals: What, Why, How, and Where?

Environmental multi-phase fluid mechanics: what, why, how, where to?

In April 2009, the Springer journal Environmental FluidMechanics published a special issue on ‘‘Recent Advances on Multi-Phase Flows of Environmental Importance’’ (Env. Fluid Mech., Vol. 9, No. 2, 2009), edited by the same authors of this editorial [1]. That issue featured six high-calibre papers devoted to a range of multi-phase flow topics relevant to environmental and geophysical flows [2–7]...

Sonification of Statistical Graphs

Two experiments are presented that compare the effectiveness of different parameters of sound for the auditory presentation of box plots. Temporal mapping was found to be better than pitch or panning mapping. In the first experiment, the mapping condition that used two dimensions (the redundant condition) did not result in a better performance than those mappings that used one dimension. Howeve...

Pie Chart Sonification

Different acoustic variables such as pitch, volume, timbre and position can be used to represent quantitative, qualitative and categorical aspects of the information. Such sonifications are particularly useful for those with visual impairments; they are also beneficial in circumstances where visual representations would be impossible to use or to enrich a graphical realization. We demonstrate m...