Evaluating the Use of Sonification and Music to Support the Communication of Alcohol Health Risk to Young People: Initial Results

Bart Walus; Sandra Pauletto; Amanda Jayne Mason-Jones

Evaluating the Use of Sonification and Music to Support the Communication of Alcohol Health Risk to Young People: Initial Results

Bart Walus, Sandra Pauletto, Amanda Jayne Mason-Jones

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Abstract

The interdisciplinary research project, using Sonification to COmmunicate public health Risk data (SCORe), aims to experimentally test how sonification, interactivity in combination with music, could increase the communicative potential of a visual presentation directed to young people and focused on health risk data of alcohol consumption. Specifically, we are studying how this type of presentation can support engagement with health information, and the effective interpretation and recall of data. In order to explore the possible influence of sound in understanding important health risk messages, a 3-arm pilot randomised control (participant-blinded) trial was designed. We compared a visual presentation augmented by sonification, music and interaction with a simple visual presentation and a visual presentation augmented by simple user interaction. This paper describes the most complex of the three health presentations (the audio-visual and interactive presentation) and presents initial findings that relate to this presentation only.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICAD 15
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display
Publisher	Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics
Pages	260-267
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-902949-01-1
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	21st International Conference on Auditory Display - Graz, Austria Duration: 8 Oct 2015 → …

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Auditory Display
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Graz
Period	8/10/15 → …

Keywords

health communication
sonification
interactive media

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SCORe Project: using Sonification to COmmunicate health Risk data
Pauletto, S., Mason-Jones, A. J. & Walus, B.
3/03/14 → 2/03/15
Project: Other project › Other internal award

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Walus, B., Pauletto, S., & Mason-Jones, A. J. (2015). Evaluating the Use of Sonification and Music to Support the Communication of Alcohol Health Risk to Young People: Initial Results. In ICAD 15: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display (pp. 260-267). Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics. http://iem.kug.ac.at/fileadmin/media/institut-17/icad15/proceedings150707_2.pdf

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Walus, B , Pauletto, S & Mason-Jones, AJ 2015, Evaluating the Use of Sonification and Music to Support the Communication of Alcohol Health Risk to Young People: Initial Results. in ICAD 15: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, pp. 260-267, 21st International Conference on Auditory Display, Graz, Austria, 8/10/15. <http://iem.kug.ac.at/fileadmin/media/institut-17/icad15/proceedings150707_2.pdf>

Evaluating the Use of Sonification and Music to Support the Communication of Alcohol Health Risk to Young People: Initial Results. / Walus, Bart ; Pauletto, Sandra ; Mason-Jones, Amanda Jayne.
ICAD 15: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, 2015. p. 260-267.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Evaluating the Use of Sonification and Music to Support the Communication of Alcohol Health Risk to Young People: Initial Results

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