Sonification [the use of nonspeech audio to convey information]
allows us to take advantage of human perceptual and cognitive abilities
provides a way to represent info for those with no vision Sound offers choices for representing ideas and phenomena and more ways in which to explore and understand the complex world we inhabit .
Notes:
SONIFICATION-it’s a big word--all it means is the use of nonspeech audio to convey information--it allows us to take advantage of all our perceptual and cognitive abilities/.
Our sense of hearing--until recently unappreciated as a means of representing data, can be used to expand the repertoire of design.
Just think of the Geiger counter, for example, or a metal detector, where the bzz-bzz-bzz sound helps us zone in on the location of an object...or sonar...
There are also auditory thermometers, and many examples of medical and airplane cockpit auditory displays...infrared spectrographic data can be made audible... allowing chemists to learn new things from the auditory presentation of data
Sonification is used in dynamic monitoring tasks such as anesthesiology and factory production controls; and mathematicians and other scientists are interested in the potential applications of using sound to explore complex data sets
Sonification supplements other "sensory modalities" for data communication and of course, it can assist special user populations like the blind and visually impaired...
SOUND offers choices for representing ideas and phenomena and more ways in which to explore and understand complex world we inhabit.