| Résumé |
The CoRSAIRe project (« Combinaisons de Rendus Sensori-moteurs pour l'Analyse Immersive de Résultats », or Combination of sensori-motor rendering for the immersive analysis of results) aims at significantly enhancing currently existing interfaces in scientific applications by introducing multiple sensori-motor channels, so that the user will be able to see, hear, and touch the data itself. In this article, a sphere surface exploration test is presented. The subject tested is asked to virtually navigate, using a pointing and tracking device, a two dimensional function located on the surface of a sphere and sonified with a beeping sound: the task is to find the maximum of the function, in this case sonified with the highest beeping frequency, and to validate its position. The experience is repeated with and without the use of sound spatialization techniques. The test itself represent an abstraction of a sonification issue: can sound spatialization be useful in a surface exploration task? |
