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2024 May - Volume 72 Number 5

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Editor’s Note

Guest Editors’ Note Special Issue on Sonification

Authors: Ziemer, Tim; Hermann, Thomas; McMullen, Kyla; Höldrich, Robert

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Papers

A Natural Sonification Mapping for Handwriting

Authors: Gross-Vogt, Katharina; Rachdi, Noah; Frank, Matthias


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The sonification of handwriting has been shown effective in various learning tasks. In this paper, the authors investigate the sound design used for handwriting interaction based on a simple and cost-efficient prototype. The authentic interaction sound is compared with physically informed sonification designs that employ either natural or inverted mapping. In an experiment, participants copied text and drawings. The authors found simple measures of the structure-borne audio signal that showed how participants were affected in their movements, but only when drawing. In contrast, participants rated the sound features differently only for writing. The authentic interaction sound generally scored best, followed by a natural sonification mapping.


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Toward an Auditory Virtual Observatory

Authors: Garcia Riber, Adrian; Serradilla, Francisco


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Review Paper


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Sonification research is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Consequently, a proper documentation of and interdisciplinary discourse about a sonification is often hindered by terminology discrepancies between involved disciplines, i.e., the lack of a common sound terminology in sonification research. Without a common ground, a researcher from one discipline may have trouble understanding the implementation and imagining the resulting sound perception of a sonification, if the sonification is described by a researcher from another discipline. To find a common ground, the author consulted literature on interdisciplinary research and discourse, identified problems that occur in sonification, and applied the recommended solutions. As a result, the author recommends considering three aspects of sonification individually, namely 1) Sound Design Concept, 2) Objective, and 3) Evaluation, clarifying which discipline is involved in which aspect and sticking to this discipline’s terminology. As two requirements of sonifications are that they are a) reproducible and b) interpretable, the author recommends documenting and discussing every sonification design once using audio engineering terminology and once using psychoacoustic terminology. The appendixes provide comprehensive lists of sound terms from both disciplines, together with relevant literature and a clarification of often misunderstood and misused terms.

Standards and Information Documents

AES Standards Committee News

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Guest Editors Note

GUEST EDITORS’ NOTE Special Issue on Sonification

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