Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in Sonification.
- Auditory Scrollbar (Audio Scrollbar, Sonic Scrollbar)
- A non-speech audio cue that conveys a user's position within a list or menu, functioning as an auditory analogue to a visual scrollbar. Auditory scrollbars use variations in pitch, tone patterns, or g…
- Non-Speech Audio (Non-Verbal Audio, Non-Speech Sound)
- Auditory output that conveys information through sounds other than spoken words — for example tones, clicks, earcons, auditory icons, musical motifs, or vowel-like timbres. Non-speech audio is widely …
- Pitch Polarity (Pitch Mapping Direction)
- The direction in which pitch changes correspond to navigation direction in an auditory interface — specifically, whether pitch increases (ascending polarity) or decreases (descending polarity) as a us…
- Radial Direction (Angular Direction, Heading, Bearing (audio display))
- In auditory-display research, a data value that represents a direction in a plane — for example a compass bearing, the tangent of a curve, or the orientation of a pointer — treated as an angle rather …
- Reference Sonification (Audio reference tone, Origin tone)
- A sonification design pattern in which a fixed, recognisable audio tone represents a known landmark - typically the origin of a coordinate system or another anchor point - and can be re-played on dema…
- Shepard Tone (Shepard Scale, Shepard-Risset Glissando)
- A psychoacoustic auditory illusion created by layering sine waves separated by octaves, producing the paradoxical perception of a tone that continuously rises (or falls) in pitch indefinitely, yet cyc…
- Stereo Panning (Audio Panning, Pan)
- The technique of distributing a mono sound signal between the left and right channels of a stereo output to create the perception that the sound originates from a specific horizontal position in space…