icad 2011 - The 17th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)

The 17th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
Hotel Mercure Buda****
Budapest, Hungary
June 20-23, 2011

Organized by ICAD and the Hungarian Scientific Society for Optics, Acoustics, Motion Pictures and Theatre Technology (OPAKFI)

Background

ICAD is an interdisciplinary conference with relevance to researchers, practitioners, artists, and students working in the use of sound to convey information and ideas. The conference is unique in its specific focus on auditory displays and the range of interdisciplinary issues related to their use. Like its predecessors, ICAD 2011 will be a single-track conference, open to all collegues, with no membership or affiliation requirements.

Consistent with this year's theme ICAD 2011 invites the submission of new work and developments in all areas of interest to those who work with sound as a medium for conveying information and ideas. The conference emphasizes the concerns shared by those who work primarily with informational and affective aspects of sound including sonification of data and processes, synthetic and composed sound, musical sound, natural sound, and all issues related to interaction with sound, specifically, how it is presented to, and apprehended by, listeners. Thus, submissions are sought on topics that extend from basic research in auditory display, to application domains in the arts and sciences, mobile applications, accessibility, audio technology, information and communications technology, computer games, engineering analysis, medicine, and more.

Each year we aim to attract a wide variety of researchers and practitioners to the ICAD community who work in fields that are concerned with and/or related to computationally based, informational uses of sound. Thus, in addition to ICAD's core interests, we hope to attract submissions from composers and artists who use sonification, acoustic synthesis, spatialization, and/or interaction techniques for composition and performance purposes. Although we fully intend to maintain ICAD's primary emphasis on the use of sound as information, we specifically want to encourage a wider and more collaborative dialogue between practitioners with disparate objectives in auditory display.

In keeping with the goal of enlarging the ICAD community, after 2010, this year's conference also will have an ?aural submission” category for sonifications and aural compositions that employ computational auditory display techniques. It is intended that submissions in this category will be presented as part of the oral sessions.

Key Dates

Submission Deadline for Papers, Posters, and Aural Categories (short oveview of intent)
31 January 2011
Acceptance Notification (Papers, etc.)
30 March 2011
Camera-Ready Submissions Deadline, Aural and Sonfication Contest Submissions
15 May 2011
ICAD 2011
20-23 June 2011

Theme

This year's theme emphasizes that effective uses of sound for informative purposes involve a give-and-take between creative and functional auditory objectives as well as between the display and the listener. We invite the global ICAD community to accentuate this perspective in their work, and authors are especially encouraged to consider how they can incorporate auditory display into the presentation of their papers, for instance, by including auditory annotations and examples of the sounds used in their efforts and/or by sonifying their results. Just as it would be unusual for presentations of papers on graphics not to include some visual artefacts, we are aiming for it to be the norm that ICAD paper presentations employ sound in addition to the voice of the speaker.

Committees/Contacts, ICAD 2011

Conference and Program Chairs:

György WERSÉNYI, Széchenyi István University (E-mail)
Attila B. NAGY, Technical University of Budapest (E-mail)

Papers/Posters Chair:

David WORRALL, Australian National University (E-mail)

Demonstrations/Compositions/Aural Chair:

Mikael FERNSTRÖM, University of Limerick (E-mail)
Balázs KOVÁCS, University of Pécs (E-mail)

Student Consortium ThinkTank Chair:

Paul VICKERS, Northumbria University (E-mail)

Webmaster:

Gergely KVOJKA, OPAKFI

Secretary:

Ildikó BÁBA, OPAKFI

Submission Information

Theme and Topics for ICAD 2011

Topics include, but are not limited to:

3D and Spatial Audio
Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Culture of Auditory Displays
Accessibility
Applications
Auditory Scene Design
Design Theory and Methods
Evaluation and Usability
Human Factors and Interaction
Mappings from Data to Sound
Psychology, Cognition, Perception, and Psychoacoustics
Sonification and Exploration of Data through Sound
Sound as Art
Technologies and Tools