This thesis is a study of sonification and information: what they are and how they
relate to each other. The pragmatic purpose of the work is to support a new
generation of software tools that are can play an active role in research and practice
that involves understanding information structures found in potentially vary large
multivariate datasets. The theoretical component of the work involves a review of
the way the concept of information has changed through Western culture, from the
Ancient Greeks to recent collaborations between cognitive science and the
philosophy of mind, with a particular emphasis on the phenomenology of immanent
abstractions and how they might be supported and enhanced using sonification
techniques. A new software framework is presented, together with several examples
of its use in presenting sonifications of financial information, including that from a
high-frequency securities-exchange trading-engine.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/243179 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Worrall, David, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Communication |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright David Worrall |
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