Sunday, July 6

8:00-8:45

Breakfast and registration

8:45-8:50

Welcome and Introductions

R Duraiswami

8:50-9:40

Invited Talk

B Massof

Technologies to assist the visually impaired

9:40-10:00

Presentation 1

C Asakawa et al.

Maximum listening speeds for the blind

10:00-10:20

Presentation 2

C Frauenberger and M Noisternig

3D audio interfaces for the blind

10:20-10:40

Presentation 3

L Brown et al.

Design guidelines for audio presentation of graphs and tables

10:40-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:50

Invited Talk

J Miele

Smith-Kettlewell Display Kit: A sonification toolkit for Matlab

11:50-12:10

Presentation 4

P Susini et al.

Perceptive study and recommendation for sonification categories

12:10-12:30

Presentation 5

D Berque

Boardtalker: Initial experiences and open problems in prototyping a talking digital whiteboard to assist visually impaired students

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:20

Invited Talk

J Loomis

Basic and applied research relating to auditory displays for visually impaired people

2:20-2:40

Presentation 6

K van den Doel

Soundview: Sensing color images by kinesthetic audio

2:40-2:55

Presentation 7*

D Berque et al.

A case study in the design of software that uses auditory cues to help low vision students view notes on a blackboard

2:55-3:10

Presentation 8*

H Zhao et al.

Sonification of dynamic choropleth maps: Geo-referenced data exploration for the vision-impaired

3:10-3:30

Coffee break

3:30-3:45

Presentation 9*

T Stockman

Sonification of SQL constructs in multi-modal database interaction

3:45-4:00

Presentation 10*

F Winberg

WYSIWIH - What you see is what I hear: Giving blind users access to visual collaboration

4:00-4:15

Presentation 11

M Ohuchi et al.

A game for visually impaired children with a 3-D virtual auditory display

4:30-5:30

Round Table

All Participants

5:30-6:30

Break

6:30-8:00

Informal Pizza/Beer Reception

Lunch and coffee breaks are included in the registration

*talks from abstracts

*talks froma abstracts

Monday, July 7

8:00-8:30

Breakfast and Registration

8:30-8:45

Welcome and Introductions

B Shinn-Cunningham and A Kulkarni

8:45-10:15

Session I(a): Biological Communication Sounds

8:45-9:30

G Wakefield

Invited Talk: TBA

9:30-10:15

T Fitch

Invited Talk: Information in animal sounds: An evolutionary perspective

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-11:05

Session I(b): Biological Communication Sounds

10:45-11:05

C Campbell et al.

Discriminating visible speech tokens using multi-modality

11:05 - 12:25

Session II: Spatial Auditory Perception

11:05-11:25

V Best et al.

Two-point discrimination in auditory displays

11:25-11:45

B Shinn-Cunningham and S Ram

Identifying where you are in a room: Sensitivity to room acoustics

11:45-12:05

G Potard and I Burnett

A study on sound source apparent shape and wideness

12:05 - 12:25

D Cabrera and S Tilley

Parameters for auditory display of height and size

12:25 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:15

Session III: Sound Design and Earcons

1:30 - 2:15

J Rose

Invited Talk: Reality (sound)bites: Audio tricks from the film and TV studio

2:15 - 2:35

MLM Vargas and S Anderson

Combining speech and earcons to assist menu navigation

2:35 - 2:55

DK McGookin and SA Brewster

An investigation into the identification of concurrently presented earcons

2:55 - 3:15

G Lemaitre et al.

Perceptively based design of new car horn sounds

3:15 - 3:30

Coffee break

3:30 - 5:00

Session IV: Posters (listed below)

Tuesday, July 8

8:00-8:30

Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 10:15

Session V: Designing Effect Displays

8:30 - 8:35

B Shinn-Cunningham

Introductions

8:35 - 9:20

S Barrass

Invited Talk: Sonification Design Patterns

9:20 - 9:40

S Daudé and L Nigay

Design process for auditory interfaces

9:40 - 10:00

C Thornton et al.

Audiocentric interface design: A building blocks approach

10:00 - 10:20

F Avanzini et al.

Acqua alta a Venezia: Design of an urban scale auditory warning system

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee break

10:50 - 12:30

Session VI: Spatial Auditory Displays

10:50 - 11:10

DS Brungart and BD Simpson

Optimizing the spatial configuration of a seven-talker speech display

11:10 - 11:30

E Childs and V Pulkki

Using multi-channel spatialization in sonification: A case study with meteorological data

11:30 - 11:50

DR Begault et al.

Spatially-modulated auditory alerts

11:50 - 12:10

M Gröhn et al.

Comparison of auditory, visual, and audio-visual navigation in a 3d space

12:10 - 12:30

BN Walker and J Lindsay

Effect of beacon sounds on navigation performance in a virtual reality environment

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:10

Session VII: Sonification

1:30 - 1:50

T Hermann et al.

Broadcasting auditory weather reports: A pilot project

1:50 - 2:10

J Keller et al.

Educational testing of auditory display regarding seasonal variation of polar ice caps on mars

2:10 - 3:10

Session VIII: Auditory Display Examples

2:10 - 2:30

S Targett and M Fernström

Audio games: Fun for all? All for fun?

2:30 - 2:50

C Schmandt and G Vallejo

"LISTENIN" to domestic environments from remote locations

2:50 - 3:10

FJ Sainz Salces et al.

Household appliances control device for the elderly

3:10 - 3:40

Coffee break

3:40 - 5:10

Panel Discussion: "Science vs. Art"

Perry Cook (Princeton), Barry Vercoe (MIT), Todd Winkler (Brown), Eric Somers (SUNY)

Wednesday, July 9

8:00-8:30

Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 10:15

Session IX: Auditory Display Dimensions

8:30 - 8:35

A Kulkarni

Introductions

8:35 - 9:20

BA Wright

Invited Talk: TBA

9:20 - 9:40

J Häkkilä and S Ronkainen

Dynamic auditory cues for event importance level

9:40 - 10:00

E Brazil et al.

Exploring multi-dimensional similarity ratings for sound objects

10:00 - 10:20

A Sandor and DM Lane

Sonification of absolute values with single and multiple dimensions

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee break

10:50 - 11:30

Session X: Auditory Display System Architecture

10:50 - 11:10

T Hermann et al.

Interactive visualization and sonification for monitoring complex processes

11:10 - 11:30

D Malandrino et al.

NeMoS: Network monitoring with sound

11:30 - 12:50

Session XI: Spatial Auditory Synthesis

11:30 - 11:50

C Jin et al.

Perceptual Spatial-Audio Coding

11:50 - 12:10

BU Seeber and H Fast

Subjective selection of non-individual head-related transfer functions

12:10 - 12:30

WL Martens

Individualized and generalized earphone correction filters for spatial sound reproduction

12:30 - 12:50

J Hiipakka and G Lorho

A spatial audio user interface for generating music playlists

12:50 - 2:00

Lunch

2:00 - 3:15

ICAD Business Meeting / Open-mic session

3:15 - 3:30

ICAD 2004 Down-Under

4:00 - 6:00

MIT Media Lab Open House

4:00 - 6:00

wine and cheese, informal demos

4:30 - 5:30

oral presentations

Posters

Session IVa: Perception in Auditory Display

FA Russo, ME Lantz, G English, and LL Cuddy

Increasing effectiveness of train horns without increasing intensity

J-H Lee et al.

Auditory displays on the depth of hypertext

PMC Lemmens et al.

Do location and content operate independently?

A Guillaume and C Drake

Focalisation on the temporal context of complex sequences

E Brazil and M Fernström

Where's that sound? Exploring arbitrary user classifications of sounds for audio collection management

Session IVb: Perception in Spatial Auditory Displays

N Mesgarani et al.

Augmented intelligibility in simultaneous multi-talker environments

S Devore and B Shinn-Cunningham

Perceptual consequences of including reverberation in spatial auditory displays

F Fontana and Davide Rocchesso

A physics-based approach to the presentation of acoustic depth

JG Neuhoff and J Preston

A spatial auditory display for the prevention of pedestrian-motor vehicle collisions

SA Rizzi et al.

A three-dimensional virtual simulator for aircraft flyover presentation

MLN Kazem et al.

An investigation into a background auditory display to aid pilot situation awareness

Session IVc: Spatial Auditory Display Technology

K Pihkala and T Lokki

Extending SMIL with 3D audio

H Hoffmann et al.

An independent declarative 3D audio format on the basis of XML

J Goßmann and F Dombois

The spatial sound lab at Fraunhofer IMK.VE

M Noisternig et al.

A 3D real time rendering engine for binaural sound reproduction

JD Miller et al.

Latency measurement of a real-time virtual acoustic rendering system

VC Raykar et al.

Extracting significant features from the HRTF

E Grassi et al.

Measurement of head-related transfer functions based on the empirical transfer function estimate

Session IVd: Display Systems and Technology

T Beamish et al.

D'groove: A haptic turntable for digital audio control

JM Zmölnig et al.

The IEM-Cube: A periphonic re-/production-system

C O'Sullivan and M Fernström

Instrument timbre models with noisy partial inclusion

M Cohen and M Kawaguchi

Narrowcasting operations for mobile phone CVE chatspace avatars

Session IVe: Auditory Display Examples

D Skantze and N Dahlbäck

Auditory icon support for navigation in speech-only interfaces for room-based design metaphors

K Mäkelä et al.

The use of walking sounds in supporting awareness

P Turner et al.

Evaluating soundscapes as a means of creating a sense of place

Session IVf: Sonification Approaches

LM Brown and SA Brewster

Drawing by ear: Interpreting sonified line graphs

SC Peres and DM Lane

Sonification of statistical data

BN Walker and JT Cothran

Sonification sandbox: A graphical toolkit for auditory graphs

Session IVg: Algorithmic Composition

BL Sturm

Ocean buoy spectral data sonification: Research update

M Quinn et al.

For those who died