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Designing Sonification for an Interactive Multimodal Physics Simulation: A comparison and evaluation of continuous and discrete sonification in an educational physics simulation

Term

4. Term

Publication year

2019

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Abstract

This thesis provides an overview of sonification, relevant sonification theory, and different applications. Specifically, it investigates interactive sonification, and aims to compare and evaluate a discrete vs. a continuous sonification in an interactive physics simulation. A design and implementation process of these two sonification instances is described, before conducting an experiment to measure user experience for the two cases. However, the results of the experiment (n=22) were not statistically significant (p=0.175), and therefore no conclusion with respect to measured user experience can be made. However, qualitative results are still discusses, as well as limitations and future work.

This thesis provides an overview of sonification, relevant sonification theory, and different applications. Specifically, it investigates interactive sonification, and aims to compare and evaluate a discrete vs. a continuous sonification in an interactive physics simulation. A design and implementation process of these two sonification instances is described, before conducting an experiment to measure user experience for the two cases. However, the results of the experiment (n=22) were not statistically significant (p=0.175), and therefore no conclusion with respect to measured user experience can be made. However, qualitative results are still discusses, as well as limitations and future work.

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