Data Sonification Project

Abstract

Rapidly growing data rates and operational complexity require new approaches to providing situation awareness to military analysts, planners, and decision makers. Representation of complex information through sound, or Data Sonification (DS), is one such promising approach that remains relatively unexploited in both military and non-military information systems. The goal of the Phase I effort was to investigate and demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach to DS applications, including: (1) Methods for identifying potentially worthwhile sonification display functions in the work environment, (2) Analytical methods for decomposing and characterizing DS design problems in target systems, (3) Guidance and principles for generating, implementing and evaluating DS options, including a DS grammar for structuring symbolic aural representations, (4) Computer-based tools for assisting and improving design and evaluation tasks, and (5) Information technology appropriate to the representational demands of DS applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 27, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392413

Entities

People

  • Frederick Reed

Organizations

  • CHI Systems (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Data Rate
  • Environment
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Ballistic Missile Meteorology
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design