iSonic: interactive sonification for non-visual data exploration
| Title | iSonic: interactive sonification for non-visual data exploration |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Authors | Zhao H, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility |
| Date Published | 2005/// |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 1-59593-159-7 |
| Keywords | auditory user interfaces, information seeking, sonification, universal usability, vision impairment |
| Abstract | iSonic is an interactive sonification tool for vision impaired users to explore geo-referenced statistical data, such as population or crime rates by geographical regions. Users use a keyboard or a smooth surface touchpad to interact with coordinated map and table views of the data. The integrated use of musical sounds and speech allows users to grasp the overall data trends and to explore the data to get more details. Scenarios of use are described. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1090785.1090826 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1090785.1090826 |