Designing Trend-Monitoring Sounds for Helicopters: Methodological Issues and an Application

This article explores methodological issues in sonification and sound design arising from the design of helicopter monitoring sounds. Six monitoring sounds (each with 5 levels) were tested for similarity and meaning with 3 different techniques: hierarchical cluster analysis, linkage analysis, and mu...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Applied 2004-12, Vol.10 (4), p.203-218
Main Authors: Edworthy, Judy, Hellier, Elizabeth, Aldrich, Kirsteen, Loxley, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Adult
Air Transportation
Aircraft
Auditory Stimulation
Aviation Technology
Cluster Analysis
Design
Female
Helicopters
Human
Human Factors Engineering
Humans
Male
Methodology
Middle Aged
Monitoring
Multidimensional Scaling
Multivariate Analysis
Sound
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Summary:This article explores methodological issues in sonification and sound design arising from the design of helicopter monitoring sounds. Six monitoring sounds (each with 5 levels) were tested for similarity and meaning with 3 different techniques: hierarchical cluster analysis, linkage analysis, and multidimensional scaling. In Experiment 1, similarity ratings for the top and bottom levels of the sounds were obtained. In Experiments 2 and 3, the stimuli were rated along adjectives relevant to their application. The different sound groupings that resulted from the different clustering techniques are discussed, as is the potentially contradictory relationship between acoustic dimensions and adjectival descriptors. Generally, the results validate the design of the sounds and show that increases in stimulus value are more salient than are decreases.
ISSN:1076-898X
1939-2192
DOI:10.1037/1076-898X.10.4.203