UAS Researchers Publish New Report on State of the Art in Research

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Researchers who are involved in either the visualisation or the sonification of data pursue a common goal: They want to make data interpretable for people.

For the report at hand, Kajetan Enge and Alexander Rind, together with an international team of authors, examined and categorised 57 academic publications.

This categorisation allows for a meta-analysis of these overlapping specialist areas for the first time:

“Our data tells us, for example, that traditional line charts are frequently combined with ‘Parameter Mapping Sonification’, a widely used sonification technique”, says Kajetan Enge. “When it comes to this technique, sound qualities such as tone pitch and volume are assigned to selected data attributes, which makes it possible to learn something about the data through hearing.”

The research team presented the publication at the Eurovis 2024 conference in May – the most important data visualisation conference in Europe.

• In June, the report was published in the journal “Computer Graphics Forum”.
• The report was created within the framework of the research project “SoniVis”: Under the supervision of UAS professors Wolfgang Aigner and Michael Iber, UAS researchers Kajetan Enge and Alexander Rind developed a design theory in which the visual and auditive channels complement each other.