In June 2024, Jon Bellona presented a paper at the 2024 International Conference on Auditory Display in Troy, NY on behalf of the NSF-funded Accessible Oceans project team. The paper, Iterative Design of Auditory Displays Involving Data Sonifications and Authentic Ocean Data, outlines their auditory display framework and their use of Kyma for all of their data sonification. Program with links to all papers are accessible online at https://icad2024.icad.org/program/
During the presentation, Jon played the full 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption. When an audience member asked about his use of earcon wrappers around each sonification, Jon shared a story about how his interviews with teachers at Perkins School for the Blind led him to include this feature.
In the coming year, Bellona plans to continue his work doing sonification with Kyma as part of a new project funded through NOAA: A Sanctuary in Sound: Increasing Accessibility to Gray’s Reef Data through Auditory Displays with Jessica Roberts, director of the Technology-Integrated Learning Environments (TILEs) Lab at Georgia Tech.