Abstract
'Rotator’ is a web-based multisensory analysis interface that enables
users to shift streams of multichannel scientific data between
their auditory and visual sensory channels in order to better discern
structure and anomaly in the data. This paper provides a technical
overview of the Rotator tool as well as a discussion of the motivations
for integrating flexible data display into future analysis
and monitoring frameworks. An audio-visual presentation mode
in which only a single stream is visualized at any given moment is
identified as a particularly promising alternative to a purely visual
information display mode. Auditory and visual excerpts from the
interface are available at http://resenv.media.mit.edu/rotator.