SoniHED - Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data

This Conference will bring together experts in the fields of sonification, sound design, health sciences and environmental science to evaluate and discuss novel sonic ways to engage with data.

Sonification is concerned with displaying data in sonic form so that listeners (experts and/or non-experts) can perceive and engage with the structures and the properties of the data set and their meaning.
Sound can be a particularly effective way of displaying and exploring big data, monitoring processes and represent complex information in creative and engaging ways. Sound, an inherently time-based display, is particularly well suited to represent time-based data (for example, the evolution of an environmental phenomenon in time) as well as data gathered in real-time (for example, a muscle performing an action can be sonified as an auditory feedback).

Sound can alert a listener of anomalies and new events when the visual sense is occupied in other tasks, and large amounts of data can be portrayed rapidly in one single rhythmically and timbrally unique sound.
In addition, sound can help represent correlations and links between different data sets, something highly desirable in specific cases when health data is strongly related to environmental data.

The Conference will include guest speakers, selected papers and posters (see Call for Papers www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/seminars/sonihed/#tab-2), selected sonification works (see Call for Sonification Works www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/seminars/sonihed/#tab-4) and music/sonification performances.

For more information visit www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/seminars/sonihed/.

To book a place visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sonihed-conference-on-sonification-of-health-and-environmental-data-tickets-11615852327.