{"668149":{"#nid":"668149","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How sounds can turn us on to the wonders of the universe","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESonification \u2014 turning data into sound \u2014 and data accessibility were recurring themes at the January 2023 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. \u0026nbsp;S\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iIeIag2Ji8k\u0022\u003Eonic representations\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of light echoing off hot gas around a black hole,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/submissions.mirasmart.com\/AAS241\/Itinerary\/PresentationDetail.aspx?evdid=1126\u0022\u003Esonifications\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;designed to make solar eclipses accessible to the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community, and a proposal to incorporate sonification into astronomical data collected by the $600 million Rubin Observatory in Chile, were just three examples. The meeting was a microcosm of a bigger trend in science accessibility. \u201cAstronomy is a leading field in sonification, but there\u2019s no reason that work couldn\u2019t be generalized,\u201d says one astronomer. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/bruce-n-walker\u0022\u003EBruce Walker\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E who runs the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESonification Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, is quoted in the article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESonification \u2014 turning data into sound \u2014 and data accessibility were recurring themes at the January 2023 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. \u0026nbsp;S\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iIeIag2Ji8k\u0022\u003Eonic representations\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of light echoing off hot gas around a black hole,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/submissions.mirasmart.com\/AAS241\/Itinerary\/PresentationDetail.aspx?evdid=1126\u0022\u003Esonifications\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;designed to make solar eclipses accessible to the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community, and a proposal to incorporate sonification into astronomical data collected by the $600 million Rubin Observatory in Chile, were just three examples. The meeting was a microcosm of a bigger trend in science accessibility. \u201cAstronomy is a leading field in sonification, but there\u2019s no reason that work couldn\u2019t be generalized,\u201d says one astronomer. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/bruce-n-walker\u0022\u003EBruce Walker\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E who runs the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESonification Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, is quoted in the article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-06-20 15:28:53","changed_gmt":"2023-07-19 18:13:14","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"MIT Technology Review ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/06\/19\/1074049\/universe-sonification\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"1937","name":"Bruce Walker"},{"id":"171210","name":"Sonification Lab"},{"id":"170772","name":"Sonification"},{"id":"4188","name":"astronomy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}