Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
9 results found in sonification.
- Auditory Graph (Audible Graph, Sonified Chart)
- A non-visual representation of data that uses sound properties such as pitch, volume, duration, and timbre to convey the values and patterns typically shown in visual charts and graphs. Auditory graph…
- Data Sonification (Auditory Data Display, Sonified Data Visualization)
- The systematic mapping of data values to non-speech audio parameters such as pitch, volume, rhythm, timbre, or spatial location to make datasets perceivable through hearing. Data sonification is a key…
- Ecological Metaphor (Ecological Validity, Ecological Mapping)
- A design principle in sonification and auditory display where the mapping between data and sound aligns with users' real-world sensory and cognitive experience. For example, mapping obstacle distance …
- Frequency mapping (Pitch mapping, Frequency-position mapping)
- A sonification technique that encodes spatial position or data values as changes in audio frequency (pitch), creating an intuitive correspondence between vertical position and pitch height — low posit…
- Gesture sonification (Touch sonification, Gesture-to-sound mapping)
- The technique of converting touchscreen finger movements into real-time audio representations by mapping spatial position to sound parameters — typically pitch for vertical position and stereo panning…
- Image sonification (Visual-to-audio mapping, Auditory image display)
- The process of converting visual information from images — such as shapes, charts, diagrams, or spatial layouts — into audio representations that can be perceived without vision. Image sonification ma…
- Nonspeech Audio (Non-Speech Sounds, Auditory Cues)
- Audio feedback in user interfaces that conveys information through sounds other than synthesized or recorded speech, including earcons (abstract musical motifs), auditory icons (realistic sounds repre…
- Parameter Mapping Sonification (Parameter Mapping, Auditory Parameter Mapping)
- A sonification technique that represents changes in data dimensions through corresponding changes in auditory dimensions such as pitch, loudness, timbre, spatial position (panning), tempo, or reverber…
- Pitch Mapping (Pitch-Y Mapping, Frequency Mapping)
- A sonification technique that maps data values to auditory pitch, where higher values produce higher-pitched sounds and lower values produce lower-pitched sounds. In accessibility contexts, pitch mapp…