Evaluating the use of sonification and music to support the communication of alcohol health risk to young people: Initial results

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2015-07Author
Walus, Bartlomiej P.
Pauletto, Sandra
Mason-Jones, Amanda
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The interdisciplinary research project, Using Sonification to
COmmunicate public health Risk data (SCORe), aims to
experimentally test how sonification, interactivity in combination with music, could increase the communicative
potential of a visual presentation directed to young people and
focused on health risk data of alcohol consumption.
Specifically, we are studying how this type of presentation can support engagement with health information, and the effective interpretation and recall of data. In order to explore the possible influence of sound in understanding important
health risk messages, a 3-arm pilot randomised control (participant-blinded) trial was designed. We compared a visual presentation augmented by sonification, music and
interaction with a simple visual presentation and a visual presentation augmented by simple user interaction. This paper describes the most complex of the three health presentations
(the audio-visual and interactive presentation) and presents
initial findings that relate to this presentation only.