The Audio Abacus: Representing Numerical Values with Nonspeech Sound for the Visually Impaired
Bruce N. Walker, Jeffrey Lindsay, Justin Godfrey · 2003 · Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '04)
This paper introduces the Audio Abacus, a novel sonification application that transforms exact numerical values into sequences of non-speech tones, following the analogy of a physical abacus where each digit is represented by a distinct sound. Unlike most sonification research,…
sonification · auditory display · blindness and low vision · data visualization · non-visual interaction