Progress Toward Sonifying Napoleon’s March and Fluid Flow Simulations Through Binaural Horizons
Peter Coppin, Richard C. Windeyer, Daniel E. MacDonald, David A. Steinman · 2017
Cross-modal data analytics — that can be rendered for experience through vision, hearing, and touch — poses a fundamental challenge to designers. Non-linguistic sonification is a well-researched means for non-visual pattern recognition but higher density datasets pose a challenge. Because human hearing is optimized for detecting locations on a horizontal plane, our approach recruits this optimization by employing an immersive binaural horizontal plane using auditory icons. Two case studies demonstrate our approach: A sonic translation of a map and a sonic translation of a computational fluid dynamics simulation.