BROADCASTING AUDITORY WEATHER REPORTS - A PILOT PROJECT

摘要

This paper reports on a pilot project between our research department and and a local radio station, investigating the use of sonifi-cation to render and present auditory weather forecasts. The soni-fications include auditory markers for certain relevant time points, expected weather events like thunder, snow or fog and several auditory streams to summarize the temporal weather changes during the day. To our knowledge, this is the first utilization of sonifi-cation in a regular radio program. We introduce the sonification concept and present our design of the sonification which is oriented at combined perceptional salience and emotional truthfulness. Sound examples are given for typical weather situations in Germany and several prototypical weather conditions which tune to be connected with emotional value. We will report first experiences with this pilot project and feedback of the audience on ICAD since broadcast started in February 2003.