Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Presenting Information in Sound

  Sara Bly (1982) — Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '82)

  Sara Bly's 1982 CHI paper, written at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is one of the earliest systematic investigations of using computer-generated sound — rather than graphics — to present multivariate data to human analysts. Bly opens by arg…

  • sonification
  • auditory display
  • data visualization
  • multivariate data
  • non-visual interaction
  • historical
  • computer music
  • accessible data