Sonification Aesthetics and Listening for Network Situational Awareness

TL;DR

This paper explores how sonification, inspired by soundscape concepts, can improve network situational awareness by balancing effectiveness and listener comfort, offering ecological advantages over traditional methods.

Contribution

It introduces a soundscape-based approach to network sonification, emphasizing ecological and user-centered design for better acceptance and reduced fatigue.

Findings

Soundscape-inspired sonification enhances user acceptance.

Ecological design reduces listener fatigue.

Improved network monitoring through auditory cues.

Abstract

This paper looks at the problem of using sonification to enable network administrators to maintaining situational awareness about their network environment. Network environments generate a lot of data and the need for continuous monitoring means that sonification systems must be designed in such a way as to maximise acceptance while minimising annoyance and listener fatigue. It will be argued that solutions based on the concept of the soundscape offer an ecological advantage over other sonification designs.