Conference Schedule

ICAD 2013 programme

Session 1: Assistive and Accessibility Technologies

1.1 Plear Lecture: POLISH RESEARCH ON ACOUSTICAL ASSISTANCE FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS
Edward Hojan, Ewa Skrodzka
1.2 HARD AND SOFT INFORMATION FUSION IN SONIFICATION FOR ASSISTIVE MOBILE DEVICE TECHNOLOGY
Jeff Rimland, Mark Ballora, David Hall
1.3 THEWALKING STRAIGHT MOBILE APPLICATION: HELPING THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AVOID VEERING
Sabrina Paneels, Dylan Varenne, Jeffrey R. Blum, Jeremy R. Cooperstock
1.4 VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED - METHODS FOR TESTING VIRTUAL SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION
Dominik Storek, Frantisek Rund, Tomas Barath, Stanislav Vitek

Session 2: Auditory Display Applications - part I

2.1 SCIENCE OR ART? "SONIFICATION IN THE AGE OF BIOCYBERNETIC REPRODUCTION": A CASE STUDY OF THE ACCESSIBLE AQUARIUM PROJECT
Myounghoon Jeon, Bruce Walker, Carrie Bruce
2.2 AN AUDIO GAME APP USING INTERACTIVE MOVEMENT SONIFICATION FOR TARGETED POSTURE CONTROL
Daniel Avissar, Colby Leider, Christopher Bennett, Robert Gailey
2.3 INTERACTIVE SONIFICATION OF COLLABORATIVE AR-BASED PLANNING TASKS FOR ENHANCING JOINT ATTENTION
Alexander Neumann, Thomas Hermann
2.4 INFODROPS: SONIFICATION FOR ENHANCED AWARENESS OF RESOURCE CONSUMPTION IN THE SHOWER
Jan Hammerschmidt, Rene Tuennermann, Thomas Hermann

Session 3: Auditory Display Applications - part II

3.1 SPATIALIZED ANONYMOUS AUDIO FOR BROWSING SENSOR NETWORKS VIA VIRTUAL WORLDS
Nicholas Joliat, Brian Mayton, Joseph A. Paradiso
3.2 SONIFYING EVERY DAY: ACTIVATING EVERYDAY INTERACTIONS FOR AMBIENT SONIFICATION SYSTEMS
Sam Ferguson
3.3 A REVIEW OF HUMAN EEG SIGNAL SONIFICATION METHODS
A. Valjamae, S. Mealla, T. Steffert, S. Holland, X. Marimon, R. Benitez, A. Oliveira, S. Jorda
3.4 EXPLORING SONIFICATION FOR AUGMENTING BRAIN SCAN DATA
Agnieszka Roginska, Kent Friedman
3.5 SONIC EXPRESSIONS OF CHANGES IN THE PERCENTAGE COVER OF PURPLE MOOR-GRASS, BY ALTITUDE, UNDER HILL SHEEP GRAZING IN WESTERN IRELAND
Riana Walsh, Michael Walsh

Session 4: Auditory Display Technologies - Part I

4.1 Plenar Lecture: AUDITORY DISPLAY FROM THE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
Bozena Kostek
4.2 BLENDED SONIFICATION - SONIFICATION FOR CASUAL INFORMATION INTERACTION
Rene Tuennermann, Jan Hammerschmidt, Thomas Hermann
4.3 EMBODIED AUDITORY DISPLAY
Stephen Roddy, Dermot Furlong

Session 5: Auditory Display Technologies - Part II

5.1 GESTURE-CONTROLLED SOUND MIXING SYSTEM
Michal Lech, Bozena Kostek
5.2 EMBEDDED SONIFICATION
Stephen Barrass, Tim Barrass
5.3 PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USING SOUND TRANSDUCERS WITH GLASS MEMBRANE AS AUDITORY DISPLAY BASED ON MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS
Gyorgy Wersryi, Jozsef Repas
5.4 SONIC SHAPES: VISUALIZING VOCAL EXPRESSION
Mary Pietrowicz, Karrie Karahalios

Session 6: Auditory Display Methods and Evaluations

6.1 SONEX: AN EVALUATION EXCHANGE FRAMEWORK FOR REPRODUCIBLE SONIFICATION
Norberto Degara, Frederik Nagel, Thomas Hermann
6.2 EMPIRICAL AESTHETIC EVALUATION OF SONIFICATIONS
Katharina Vogt, Visda Goudarzi, Richard Parncutt
6.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD FOR DESIGNING AUDITORY DISPLAYS; BASED ON SOUNDTRACK COMPOSITION
Doon MacDonald, Tony Stockman
6.4 TOWARDS AN IMPROVED MODEL OF AUDITORY SALIENCY
Francesco Tordini, Albert S. Bregman, Anupriya Ankolekar, Thomas E. Sandholm, Jeremy R. Cooperstock
6.5 UNDERSTANDING THE NEED FOR MICRO-GESTURAL INFLECTIONS IN PARAMETER-MAPPING SONIFICATION
David Worrall

Session 7: HRTF and Spatial Audio

7.1 LOW ORDER MODELLING OF HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS BASED ON SPECTRAL SMOOTHING AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Michal Pec, Michal Bujacz, Pawel Strumillo
7.2 ANALYSIS OF THE SPECTRAL VARIATIONS IN REPEATED HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS
Areti Andreopoulou, Agnieszka Roginska, Hariharan Mohanraj
7.3 THE EFFECTS OF ATTENUATION MODELING ON SPATIAL SOUND SEARCH
Kyla A. McMullen, Gregory H. Wakefield
7.4 BLENDERCAVE MULTIMODAL SCENE GRAPH EDITOR FOR VIRTUAL REALITY
David Poirier-Quinot, Brian F.G. Katz
7.5 ADJUSTING THE PERCEIVED DISTANCE OF VIRTUAL SPEECH SOURCES BY MODIFYING BINAURAL ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSES
Robert Albrecht, Tapio Lokki

Session 8: Psychoacoustic and Perceptual Research

8.1 PHANTOM SIGNALS: ERRONEOUS PERCEPTION OBSERVED DURING THE AUDIFICATION OF RANDOM DATA SETS
Paul Lunn, Andy Hunt
8.2 CALCULATION OF HUMAN ECHOLOCATION CUES BY MEANS OF THE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD
David Pelegrin Garcia, Bert Roozen, Christ Glorieux
8.3 DETERMINATION OF SUBJECTIVE TINNITUS CHARACTERISTICS BY MEANS OF SOUND SYNTHESIS CONTROLLED BY THE TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACE
Tomasz Poremski, Jozef Kotus, Piotr Odya, Piotr Suchomski, Bozena Kostek, Andrzej Czyzewski
8.4 MODALITY AND ENCODING STRATEGY EFFECTS ON A VERIFICATION TASK WITH ACCELERATED SPEECH, VISUAL TEXT, AND TONES
Michael A. Nees, Kathryn Best

Poster Papers and Extended Abstracts:

9.1 SONIFICATION MAPPING CONFIGURATIONS: PAIRINGS OF REAL-TIME EXHIBITS AND SOUND
Ashley G. Henry, Carrie M. Bruce, Riley J. Winton, Bruce N. Walker
9.2 A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SKETCHING INTERFACE FOR CORPUS BASED CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS
Augoustinos Tsiros
9.3 HAKONIWA: A SONIFICATION ART INSTALLATION CONSISTS OF SAND AND WOODBLOCKS
Yuya Kikukawa, Megumi Kato, Tetsuaki Baba, Kumiko Kushiyama
9.4 A DATABASE OF REPEATED HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS
Areti Andreopoulou, Agnieszka Roginska, Hariharan Mohanraj
9.5 SONIFICATION OF A VIRTUAL MODEL OF THE OLD RARE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Ewa Lukasik, Michal Materski
9.6 A SMARTPHONE BASED SONIFICATION AND TELEMETRY PLATFORM FOR ON-WATER ROWING TRAINING
Ceasarini, D., Schaffert, N., Manganiello, C., Mattes, K. & Avvenuti, M.
9.7 SONIFICATION OF OIL AND GAS WIRELINE WELL LOGS
Gabriel Quintero
9.8 HOW IS AUDITORY EMG BIOFEEDBACK EFFECTIVE FOR BLIND PEOPLE?
Masaki Iguchi, Masaki Matsubara, Hideki Kadone, Hiroko Terasawa, Kenji Suzuki
9.9 DESIGNING AUDITORY STIMULUS FOR SLEEP ENHANCEMENT
Lauri Ahonen, Matti Grohn, Jussi Virkkala, Sharman Jagadeesan, Minna Huotilainen, Tiina Paunio
9.10 AUDITORY GRAPHS NEED ERROR BARS: VALIDATING ERROR-TO-SOUND MAPPINGS AND SCALINGS
Batterman, J.M. & Walker, B.N.
9.11 READERS AS AN AUDIO ACCOMMODATION IN HIGH STAKES STANDARDIZED TESTING: DIFFICULTIES WITH EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
Michael A. Nees, Lauren Berry, & Charlotte Phillips
9.12 TOWARD A SONIFICATION CONCEPT FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING
Tobias Hildebrandt, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
9.13 TESTING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF FUNCTIONAL SONIFICATION AS ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK FOR ROWING
N.Schaffert & R. Gehret