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Kirsty Beilharz
Researcher at University of Technology, Sydney
Publications - 38
Citations - 247
Kirsty Beilharz is an academic researcher from University of Technology, Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sonification & Auditory display. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 37 publications receiving 208 citations. Previous affiliations of Kirsty Beilharz include University of New South Wales & University of Sydney.
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Arts on prescription for community-dwelling older people with a range of health and wellness needs.
Roslyn G. Poulos,Sally Marwood,Damian Harkin,Simon Opher,Stephen Clift,Andrew Cole,Joel Rhee,Kirsty Beilharz,Christopher J. Poulos +8 more
TL;DR: Qualitative findings indicated that the Arts on Prescription program provided challenging artistic activities which created a sense of purpose and direction, enabled personal growth and achievement, and empowered participants, in a setting which fostered the development of meaningful relationships with others.
Using psychoacoustical models for information sonification
TL;DR: This paper presents a method for their application and discusses effects and implications of using this method for designing auditory displays, and sound examples of auditory graphing based on psychoacoustical models will be presented at the conference for discussion.
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Aesthetic and auditory enhancements for multi-stream information sonification
Hong Jun Song,Kirsty Beilharz +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence that spatialization of informative events coinciding in time can be more clearly distinguished and that timbre characteristics can serve to further reinforce spatial and stream separation is shown to develop comprehensible methods for representing complex data-sets.
An Interface and Framework Design for Interactive Aesthetic Sonification
Kirsty Beilharz,Sam Ferguson +1 more
TL;DR: The interface design of the AeSon (Aesthetic Sonification) Toolkit is motivated by user-centred customisation of the aesthetic representation and scope of the data by using notions of meter, beat, key or modality and emphasis drawn from music.
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Listening through the firewall: Semiotics of sound in networked improvisation
Roger Mills,Kirsty Beilharz +1 more
TL;DR: This paper focuses on qualities of sound in the group's networked improvisation, examining how they become arbiters of meaning in dialogical musical interactions without visual gestural signifiers, highlighting the centrality of culture, artefact and environment in the analysis of dispersed musical perception.