Sonification Design Patterns

Sonification is the use of non-speech sound to convey information. For more information on Sonification please refer to the website of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) http://www.icad.org.

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• SonificationProducts
• EarsLeadEyes
• PerceivingPatternsInData
• StethoScope

These prototype Sonification Design Patterns were written from papers in the proceedings of ICAD'02 that had clear statements of hypotheses, results to support them, and repeated examples elsewhere in the proceedings. The lively development of SonificationDesignPatterns may help build sonification-specific vocabulary, identify hypotheses, and allow product designers to pick up and apply our research. Please add to and improve on these first learning exercises! -- Stephen Barrass, May 2003

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The following were introduced at the ICAD 2004 conference: http://www.icad.org

• SystemMonitoring
• SituationalAwareness
• SonifiedLineGraph
• AuditoryIcon
• AttensonPattern
• PersonalizationPattern.

The following have been transcribed from a paper-based workshop at the ICAD 2004 Conferece.

• IndicationOfAction
• AssumptionOfNormalHearingAcuity
• BroadbandLocalisation?
• SoundLines?

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References:

Barrass S. "Sonification Design Patterns", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display ICAD 2003, Boston, July 6-9, 2003. [http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2003/paper/42%20Barrass.pdf]

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Also see UserInterfacePatterns