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Auditory Display: Daily Vertical Migration Gets Eclipsed, v2

By Jon Bellona July 22, 2023

Based on input from our team, research with blind and low-vision (BLV) students in schools, and insights learned over the past year, we have updated our auditory display for the Daily Vertical Migration Gets Eclipsed! Data Nugget. I re-recorded narration audio, and mixed underlying music, sound effects, and data sonification snippets as part of the…

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Auditory Display: 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption, v2

By Jon Bellona July 22, 2023

Based on input from our team, research with blind and low-vision (BLV) students in schools, and insights learned over the past year, we have updated our auditory display for the 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption Data Nugget. We added start and end beep earcons to the data sonifications, re-recorded narration audio, and mixed underlying music, sound…

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Auditory Display: Axial Long Term Seafloor Inflation Record, short version

By Jon Bellona July 14, 2023

Based on cognitive load in informal learning environments, we knew we needed to reduce the length of our auditory displays. We started this process with the Long term Seafloor Inflation Record. We reduced the script and tightened up the auditory key, or legend, for the data sonification. The audio media player is below. For more…

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Auditory Display: Axial Long Term Seafloor Inflation Record, v2

By Jon Bellona July 13, 2023

Based on input from our team, research with blind and low-vision (BLV) students in schools, and insights learned over the past year, we have updated our auditory display for the 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption Data Nugget. We updated data sonifications, re-recorded narration audio, and mixed underlying music, sound effects, and data sonification snippets as part…

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Auditory Display: Extratropical Storm Hermine, v2

By Jon Bellona July 12, 2023

Based on input from our team, research with blind and low-vision (BLV) students in schools, and insights learned over the past year, we have updated our auditory display for the Extratropical Storm Hermine Data Nugget. We updated data sonifications of some meteorological instruments, re-recorded narration audio, and mixed underlying music, sound effects, and data sonification…

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Spearcons and the spectrum of speech comprehension…

By Jon Bellona October 28, 2022

We are fortunate to have an amazing advisory board filled with diverse expertise in many sectors and who bring diverse lived experiences. On a recent advisory board meeting, I learned about a new term for how we use and define spearcons – an invited term called “nearcons.” To backup and provide context, a spearcon “is…

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Audio Display Prototype: Extratropical Storm Hermine

By Jon Bellona September 1, 2022

Based on core lessons from the Extratropical Storm Hermine Data Nugget, I created data sonifications of the various meteorological instruments and mocked up an audio display prototype, which I have included below. Please note that the Ocean Labs data nugget does not include sea wave height as part of its graph (below). Storms also impact…

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Creating Accessible Media on a Qualtrics Survey

By Jon Bellona August 28, 2022

This post outlines lessons learned from creating an accessible Qualtrics survey involving media players. While we were excited to learn about general user impressions of sounds to help guide our sonification design, we learned a good deal in the creation of an accessible Qualtrics survey involving audio. We wanted to share our lessons learned. Feel…

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Audio Display Prototype: Axial Long Term Seafloor Record

By Jon Bellona August 26, 2022

Based on core lessons from the 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption Data Nugget, I created data sonifications and mocked up an audio display prototype, which I have included below. Please note that the Ocean Labs data nugget does not include the graph (included below) that we sonified and developed an audio display for; yet, the graph…

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Audio Display Prototype: 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption

By Jon Bellona August 24, 2022

Based on data sonifications I made for the 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption Data Nugget, I mocked up an audio display prototype, which I have included below. The audio display has three tracks that roughly span four minutes in length. I included the graph of the 35 days of bottom pressure sensor data alongside a playlist…

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