The 22nd
International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2016)
Australian National University, Canberra, July 2-July 8 2016
CALL FOR
PAPERS, POSTERS, SONIFICATIONS, INSTALLATIONS,
COMPOSITIONS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Co-chairs:Dr David Worrall,
Australian National University and Dr Stephen Barrass,
University of Canberra
ICAD is
a highly interdisciplinary academic conference with relevance to
researchers, practitioners, musicians, and students interested
in the design of sounds to support tasks, improve performance,
guide decisions, augment awareness, and enhance experiences. It
is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the
array of perception, technology, and application areas that this
encompasses. Like its predecessors, ICAD 2016 will be a
single-track conference, open to all, with no membership or
affiliation requirements.
ICAD
2016-the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display-will
be held at the Australian National University in Canberra,
Australia, from July 2 to 8, 2016. The conference venue is the
ANU School of Music, in the downtown centre of Canberra.
Workshops and the graduate student ThinkTank (doctoral
consortium) will be on the weekend of July 2 and 3, before the
main conference.
Note
that ICAD is back-to-back with the conference on New Interfaces
for Musical Expression (NIME) which will be held in Brisbane the
following week, so international attendees can attend two
international conferences for the one trip to Australia!
THEME: SONIC
INFORMATION DESIGN
The
designed world is rapidly replacing the natural world. Design
has been called the "third culture" and has been distinguished
from the Sciences and Arts by Nigel Cross in terms of
- things to
know: the natural world in science, human experience in
art, and the artificial world in design.
- ways of
knowing: rationality and objectivity in science,
reflection and subjectivity in art, and imagination and
practicality in design.
- ways of
finding out: experiment and analysis in science,
criticism and evaluation in art, and modelling and synthesis
in design.
This
year's theme - Sonic Information Design - has the aspiration
that artificial sounds may be designed to make the world a
better place. Like other design disciplines, Sonic Information
Design takes a synergetic user-centred view of the relationship
between artefacts, those that are affected by them, and the
social contexts in which they occur. A Design orientation pays
particular attention to the phenomenology of user experience -
including physical, cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic issues;
the relationship between form, function, and content; and
emerging concepts such as fun, playfulness and design futures.
Practice-based research is considered as a generative process of
exploration, speculation and discovery, with outcomes that can
be provisional, contingent and aspirational, while aiming for
richer, more situated understandings that lead to the
advancement of knowledge and the proliferation of new realities.
Sonic
Information Design draws on theoretical approaches from multiple
disciplines to guide hypothesis testing at multiple points
during an iterative process -what Bill Gaver calls "humble
theory". Sonic Information Design recognises usefulness as
critical for evaluating artefacts, and the perceptual alignment
with data characteristics as critical for effective designs.
ICAD
2016 invites contributions that take a design approach,
introduce design theory and apply design methods to Auditory
Display and Data Sonification, with a view to building a
conceptually robust foundation for Sonic Information Design.
TOPICS
Topics
for ICAD2016 include new and emerging themes, as well as more
traditional ICAD ones. Themes include but are not limited to:
- Sonic Information Design
- Stream-based Sonification
and Auditory Scene Design
- Acoustic Sonification
- Small Data (personal,
intimate) sonification and the quantised self
- Sonification, soundscape
and screensound
- Sonification in Health
and Environmental Data (soniHED)
- Musification -
sonifications and music
- Sonification, personal
fabrication and maker culture
- Sonification in the
Internet of Things
- Auditory Data Mining and
Big Data sonification
- 3D and Spatial Audio
- Aesthetics, Philosophy,
and Culture of Auditory Displays
- Accessibility
- Applications
- 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
Presentations will be organised according to four
major themes:
- Auditory Data Mining
- Interactive
Sonication, including for sports and health.
- Musification and
Aesthetics
- Auditory Perception,
including streaming, spatialisation and inter/poly modality.
KEY DATES
(2016)
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29 February
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Submission
Deadline for Full Papers, Posters and Extended
Abstracts |
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14 March |
Submission
Deadline for Workshop proposals |
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28 March |
Acceptance
Notification of Papers, Posters and Extended
Abstracts |
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04 April |
Submission
Deadline for Sonifications / Installations /
Compositions / Extended Abstracts
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11 April |
Acceptance
Notification of Workshop proposals |
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09 May |
Submissions
Deadline for Camera-Ready materials |
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16 May |
Acceptance
Notification of Sonifications / Installations /
Compositions |
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2-3 July |
Conference
ThinkTank and Workshops |
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4-8 July |
ICAD1016
Conference Proper (Programme details TBA)
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PUBLICATION
We are aiming to select papers for a special
issue of a leading journal. Details to follow.
WORKSHOPS
Proposals for half and full-day workshops are
called for.
Deadline for Submission of Workshop
proposals: 14 March 2016
INSTALLATIONS
Installations at ICAD 2016 will be afforded
their own individual space and, depending on the number of
submissions, will likely be featured for an entire day.
Spaces available include
- A public but
relatively quiet space
- An entrance foyer
space
- A pub and a café
space (with table-top Bluetooth speakers if applicable)
Deadline for submission of
Installation proposals: 4 April 2016
EXTRA-CURRICULA
We have organised a rich array of natural and
cultural activities to ensure your trip down under is not
all work and no play!
MORE
INFORMATION
CORRESPONDENCE
Please address correspondence to: icad2016chair
_at_
icad.org WELCOME!
We look forward to you joining us in making a
wonderful conference!