Progress toward sonifying Napoleon’s march and fluid flow simulations through binaural horizons

摘要

Cross-modal data analytics—that can be rendered for experienceudthrough vision, hearing, and touch—poses a fundamentaludchallenge to designers. Non-linguistic sonification is audwell-researched means for non-visual pattern recognition butudhigher density datasets pose a challenge. Because human hearingudis optimized for detecting locations on a horizontal plane, ourudapproach recruits this optimization by employing an immersiveudbinaural horizontal plane using auditory icons. Two case studiesuddemonstrate our approach: A sonic translation of a map and audsonic translation of a computational fluid dynamics simulation.