Exploring the usability of sound strategies for guiding task: toward a generalization of sonification design

Gaëtan Parseihian (1) , Charles Gondre (1) , Mitsuko Aramaki (1) , Richard Kronland-Martinet (1) , Sølvi Ystad (1)

1 LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]

This article aims at providing a new Parameter Mapping Sonification approach in order to facilitate and generalize sonification design for different applications. First a definition of the target as a con-cept that enables a general sonification strategy that is not limited to specific data types is given. This concept intends to facilitate the sepa-ration between sound and information to display. Rather than directly displaying data dimensions through the variation of a specific sound pa-rameter, the approach aims at displaying the distance between a given data value and the requested value. Then a taxonomy of sound strategies based on sound that allow the construction of several strategy types is presented. Finally, several sound strategies are evaluated with a user ex-periment and the taxonomy is discussed on the basis of user's guidance behavior during a guiding task.

Domaines: Son [cs.SD]; Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Gaëtan Parseihian, Charles Gondre, Mitsuko Aramaki, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Sølvi Ystad. Exploring the usability of sound strategies for guiding task: toward a generalization of sonification design. Proc. of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Oct 2013, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-01084783⟩