SonoUno web: an innovative user centred web interface

TL;DR

The paper introduces SonoUno web, a user-friendly online tool that enables easy exploration and sonification of astronomical data sets with customizable visual and auditory features, accessible via web browsers.

Contribution

It presents a new web-based version of SonoUno that allows data exploration and sonification without installation, enhancing accessibility and user interaction.

Findings

Web interface supports data upload and pre-loaded files.

Customizable sonification and visualization features.

Accessible with screen readers for improved usability.

Abstract

Sonification as a complement of visualization is been under research for decades as a new ways of data deployment. ICAD conferences, gather together specialists from different disciplines to discuss about sonification. Different tools as sonoUno, starSound and Web Sandbox are attempt to reach a tool to open astronomical data sets and sonify it in conjunction to visualization. In this contribution, the sonoUno web version is presented, this version allows user to explore data sets without any installation. The data can be uploaded or a pre-loaded file can be opened, the sonification and the visual characteristics of the plot can be customized on the same window. The plot, sound and marks can be saved. The web interface were tested with the main used screen readers in order to confirm their good performance.