The Accessible Aquarium
The goal of the Accessible Aquarium project is to use sonification to make dynamic exhibits such as those at museums, science centers, zoos and aquaria more engaging and accessible for visitors with vision impairments. The system provides real-time interpretation of the surroundings using innovative approaches for object tracking, music generation, narrations, and adaptive sonification. As part of the project artist and musician Laurie Anderson played in front of fish at the Georgia Aquarium while wearing an eye tracker. An analysis and generative systems were developed to learn how Anderson and other musicians interpret the size, speed, and trajectory of the fish and to create musical representations of the activity in the aquarium for people with visual impairments.

Collaborators: Bruce Walker, Tucker Balch, Aaron Bobick, Carrie Bruce, Laurie Anderson
Student: Ryan Nikolaidis, Sriram Viswanathan, Mark Godfrey, Jonathan Kim, Jason Orlosky