Defining emotions is still a highly debated topic, with new information being constantly brought to light. External stimuli often have an impact on how we feel and can sway our mood in ways that are not yet fully understood. Emotions and affect have in turn an impact on how we perform cognitively and how we interpret other stimuli. Extensive research has been done in the influence that musics and sounds have over emotion. In the field of Sonification, data is often represented abstractly with sounds that are not immediately recognizable. We set out to design a user study and its accompanying tools to better understand how the auditory aspect of an audiovisual data representation affects the recipient. During the course of our project we develop a software application integrating elements of participatory design to help lay people create sound representing data on a graph. We perform a pilot study and lay the foundation of a fully-fledged user study to be made in the future. This document describes our design process, challenges, and considerations during the planning of the user study and its corresponding software.