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View article: Addressing the Heterogeneity of Visualization in an Introductory PhD Course in the Swedish Context
Addressing the Heterogeneity of Visualization in an Introductory PhD Course in the Swedish Context Open
Visualization is a heterogeneous field, and this aspect is often reflected by the organizational structures at higher education institutions that academic researchers in visualization and related fields including computer graphics, human-c…
View article: Open Your Ears and Take a Look: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Integration of Sonification and Visualization
Open Your Ears and Take a Look: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Integration of Sonification and Visualization Open
The research communities studying visualization and sonification for data display and analysis share exceptionally similar goals, essentially making data of any kind interpretable to humans. One community does so by using visual representa…
View article: Birdsongification: Contextual and Complementary Sonification for Biology Visualization
Birdsongification: Contextual and Complementary Sonification for Biology Visualization Open
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 …
View article: Introduction to the special issue on design and perception of interactive sonification
Introduction to the special issue on design and perception of interactive sonification Open
Design and perception of sonification can be considered from the viewpoint of psychoacoustics and auditory scene analysis, but also from the viewpoint of aesthetics and user experience.The theme of the Interactive Sonification Workshop (IS…
View article: SonAir: the design of a sonification of radar data for air traffic control
SonAir: the design of a sonification of radar data for air traffic control Open
Along with the increase of digitalization and automation, a new kind of working environment is emerging in the field of air traffic control. Instead of situating the control tower at the airport, it is now possible to remotely control the …
View article: Psychoacoustics in the Loop. Proceedings of the 7th Interactive Sonification Workshop.
Psychoacoustics in the Loop. Proceedings of the 7th Interactive Sonification Workshop. Open
These are the proceedings of the Interactive Sonification Workshop 2022 (ISon 2022) that took place in Delmenhorst, Germany, on September 22nd–23rd 2022 organized by the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center, University of Bremen and the confere…
View article: An exploratory use of audiovisual displays on oceanographic data
An exploratory use of audiovisual displays on oceanographic data Open
The present study is an interdisciplinary endeavour that transmutes science, technology, and aesthetics into an audiovisual experience. The objective is to highlight the potential of combining sonification with visualisation in order to en…
View article: Questionnaires assessing usability of audio-visual representations
Questionnaires assessing usability of audio-visual representations Open
In this position paper we argue for the need of using standardized questionnaires for assessing usability in audio-visual representations. By using standardized measures of usability, comparability and validity of research studies in this …
View article: Measurement and sonification of construction site noise and particle pollution data
Measurement and sonification of construction site noise and particle pollution data Open
Purpose The noise and dust particles caused by the construction transport are by most stakeholders experienced as disturbing. The purpose of this study is to explore how sonification can support visualization in construction planning to de…
View article: Openspace Sonification: Complementing Visualization of the Solar System with Sound
Openspace Sonification: Complementing Visualization of the Solar System with Sound Open
Data visualization software is commonly used to explore outer space in a planetarium environment, where the visuals of the software is typically accompanied with a narrator and supplementary background music. By letting sound take a bigger…
View article: Automation, teamwork, and the feared loss of safety
Automation, teamwork, and the feared loss of safety Open
In various control systems, automation is implemented to increase efficiency and safety. With increased automation, it becomes increasingly relevant to view the automation as a team member, rather than as a tool. In best cases, human-autom…
View article: Designing the user experience of musical sonification in public and semi-public spaces
Designing the user experience of musical sonification in public and semi-public spaces Open
Sonification refers to sonic expression of data or information. It is often thought of as an auditory complement, providing additional information about data which can reveal patterns and facilitate interpretation and understanding of the …
View article: On the usefulness of map-based dashboards for decision making
On the usefulness of map-based dashboards for decision making Open
Preprint of paper On the usefulness of map-based dashboards for decision making.Submitted to IEEE Transactions on visualizations and computer graphics, July 2020
View article: On the usefulness of map-based dashboards for decision making
On the usefulness of map-based dashboards for decision making Open
Preprint of paper On the usefulness of map-based dashboards for decision making.Submitted to IEEE Transactions on visualizations and computer graphics, July 2020
View article: TOWARDS INTERACTIVE SONIFICATION IN MONITORING OF DYNAMIC PROCESSES
TOWARDS INTERACTIVE SONIFICATION IN MONITORING OF DYNAMIC PROCESSES Open
The modern control room is predominantly made up of visual displays, which might make monitoring different processes a cumbersome and visually cognitively demanding task. Sonification could be used to support the monitoring task. However, …
View article: Musical sonification supports visual discrimination of color intensity
Musical sonification supports visual discrimination of color intensity Open
Visual representations of data introduce several possible challenges for the human visual perception system in perceiving brightness levels. Overcoming these challenges might be simplified by adding sound to the representation. This is cal…
View article: Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing
Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing Open
We present a discussion and analysis regarding the benefits and limitations of open and non-anonymized peer review based on literature results and responses to a survey on the reviewing process of alt.chi, a more or less open-review track …
View article: Sonification supports perception of brightness contrast
Sonification supports perception of brightness contrast Open
In complex visual representations, there are several possible challenges for the visual perception that might be eased by adding sound as a second modality (i.e. sonification). It was hypothesized that sonification would support visual per…
View article: Traces of Modal Synergy: Studying Interactive Musical Sonification of Images in General-audience Use
Traces of Modal Synergy: Studying Interactive Musical Sonification of Images in General-audience Use Open
Photone is an interactive installation combining color images with musical sonification. The musical expression is generated based on the syntactic (as opposed to semantic) features of an image as it is explored by the user’s pointing devi…
View article: A Study on Visual Representations for Active Plant Wall Data Analysis
A Study on Visual Representations for Active Plant Wall Data Analysis Open
The indoor climate is closely related to human health, well-being, and comfort. Thus, an understanding of the indoor climate is vital. One way to improve the indoor climates is to place an aesthetically pleasing active plant wall in the en…
View article: Photone: Exploring Modal Synergy in Photographic Images and Music
Photone: Exploring Modal Synergy in Photographic Images and Music Open
We present Photone, an interactive installation combining photographic images and musical sonification. An image is displayed, and a dynamic musical score is generated based on the overall color properties of the image and the color value …
View article: Sonification Enhances Perception of Color Intensity
Sonification Enhances Perception of Color Intensity Open
This poster presents an interactive sonification experiment, designed to evaluate possible benefits of sonification in information visual- ization. The aim of the present study was to explore the use of composed and deliberately designed m…
View article: On the Use of Parallel Coordinates for Temporal Multivariate Data
On the Use of Parallel Coordinates for Temporal Multivariate Data Open
This work presents the results from a user centered evaluation of visual representations of temporal multivariate data using 2D and3D parallel coordinates. The objective of the evaluation was to investigate whether 2D or 3D representations…
View article: The Sound Challenge to Visualization Design Research
The Sound Challenge to Visualization Design Research Open
This paper is an introduction to the emotional qualities of sound and music, and we suggest that the visual and the aural modalities should be combined in the design of visualizations involving emotional expressions. We therefore propose t…
View article: Interactive Sonification for Visual Dense Data Displays
Interactive Sonification for Visual Dense Data Displays Open
This paper presents an experiment designed to evaluate the possible benefits of sonification in information visualization to give rise to further research challenges. It is hypothesized, that by using musical sounds for sonification when v…
View article: SONIFYING THE PERIPHERY: SUPPORTING THE FORMATION OF GESTALT IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
SONIFYING THE PERIPHERY: SUPPORTING THE FORMATION OF GESTALT IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL Open
We report a design-led exploration of sonification to provide peripheral awareness in air traffic control centers. Our assumption is that by using musical sounds for sonification of peripheral events, it is possible to create a dynamic sou…