[specialist]

No doubt.

Years ago, a buddy hosted corporate email, dns, etc. Racks of servers. He added ambient audio to everything he monitored. Nature sounds, weather, birds, insects, etc. The volume, samples, and tempo would change dynamically. Happy soothing sounds when all was well. Disruptive sounds when bad stuff happened.

(I don't know if you'd classify that as sonification.)

Walking around, visiting with guests, talking on the phone, his crew always knew the health of their systems.

It was awesome.

[got2surf]

Yep, exactly - applications like that are just cool, useful and intuitive all at once.

What's interesting is that for visual displays, we have decades of detailed research into visual perception - we know from experience how to design a graph so that patterns can be quickly extracted and understood. We don't yet have that same level of understanding for sonifications, but once we do, applications like this will be even better