This article explores how conceptual metaphor theory can be applied to the problem of representing temporal context in the sonification of time series data. It opens with an introduction to some of the conceptual metaphors involved in our understanding of time and music. Two of these metaphors are extended to the domain of Auditory Display and act as a guide to the creation of a design framework for representing temporal context in the sonification of time series data. An empirical listener evaluation of this framework is then presented and the results analysed to gauge the efficacy of this approach. The results suggest that the framework supports the listener, to a limited degree, in estimating which time-point they are currently hearing, how many time-points they have already heard and how many time-points they have left to hear. Improvements to the framework are suggested, and plans for future iterations are discussed.

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使用概念隐喻表示时间序列数据声化中的时间上下文

本文探讨了概念隐喻理论如何应用于时间序列数据超声化中表示时间上下文的问题。首先介绍了我们对时间和音乐的理解所涉及的一些概念隐喻。这些隐喻中的两个被扩展到听觉展示的领域，并作为创建设计框架的指南，该设计框架用于在时间序列数据的超声处理中表示时间上下文。然后提供了对该框架的经验听众评估，并对结果进行了分析，以评估该方法的有效性。结果表明，该框架在一定程度上支持了侦听器，以估计他们当前正在收听的时间点，他们已经听到了多少时间点以及还剩下多少时间要听到。