Haixia Zhao
Catherine Plaisant
Ben Shneiderman
ABSTRACT
iSonic is an interactive sonification tool for vision impaired users to explore geo-referenced statistical data, such as population or crime rates by geographical regions. Users use a keyboard or a smooth surface touchpad to interact with coordinated map and table views of the data. The integrated use of musical sounds and speech allows users to grasp the overall data trends and to explore the data to get more details. Scenarios of use are described.
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Index Terms
- iSonic: interactive sonification for non-visual data exploration
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