Scientific Visualization
and Data Sonification
In 1996 I received an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. My area of emphasis was scientific visualization and my thesis topic was data sonification.
A copy of my thesis in MS Word format can be requested from:
cmwilson@wildestdreams.org
Listen: A Data Sonification Toolkit
The results of my thesis research were published in the 1996 proceedings of ICAD (International Conference on Auditory Display). This links to the text of the article.
LISTEN: Sounding Uncertainty Visualization
The Listen toolkit was incorporated into two scientific visualization research projects at UCSC. An article about one of those projects, the use of sound in visualizing uncertainty, was published in the 1996 proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (Suresh K. Lodha, Catherine M. Wilson and Robert E. Sheehan, “LISTEN: Sounding Uncertainty Visualization”, IEEE Visualization 1996 Conference Proceedings, 1996, pp. 189-196).
The Next WAVe
This page at Iowa State contains a synopsis of the Listen toolkit as well as other research projects involving the use of sound in scientific visualization. It is also possible to download the source code for the Listen toolkit and a Postscript (or .dvi) copy of my thesis from this site.
Uncertainty Visualization
Current research into uncertainty visualization at the University of California at Santa Cruz.