AudioMap: Sonification
•Motivation: improve vision-impaired users’ access to
geo-referenced statistical
data
•Approach: interactive
sonification
•Tie spatial sound to areas to create a virtual map
•Data-to-sound mapping: Piano pitch
-> value.
•Interactions for auditory information seeking
•Gist
(overview): spatial sweeping
•Navigation:
state-by-state exploration
•Details-on-demand:
name & value
spoken on request
•Pilot user study (9 sighted users)
•Controlled study (48 sighted users)
•Participant observation (2 blind users)
