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Psychoacoustic sonification design for navigation in surgical interventions
Type of publication: Inproceedings
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Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
Volume: 30
Number: 1
Year: 2017
Month: June
Pages: 050005
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America and European Acoustics Association
Location: Boston, MA
URL: http://asa.scitation.org/doi/a...
DOI: 10.1121/2.0000557
Abstract: A psychoacoustically motivated sonification design to guide clinicians in two-dimensional space is presented, e.g., to navigate a scalpel towards a target resection trajectory, ablation needle towards a pre-planned insertion point, or drill towards a target burrhole for craniotomy. Navigation is achieved by mapping spatial dimensions to audio synthesis parameters that affect the magnitude of different perceptual sound qualities. Orthogonal spatial dimensions are mapped to orthogonal auditory qualities.In a preliminary laboratory study, non-expert users successfully identified the target field out of 16 possible fields in 41% of all trials. The correct cardinal direction was identified in 84% of the trials. Based on both findings and further psychoacoustic considerations, the mapping range is optimized, and an implementation of an additional depth dimension is discussed.
Keywords: applied psychoacoustics, Auditory Display, Auditory Perception, Psychoacoustics, Sonification
Authors Ziemer, Tim
Black, David
Schultheis, Holger
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