Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to participate at the 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound - Audio Mostly 2007. Due to a many requests we decided to extend the deadline for your abstract submissions until June 22, 2007. Looking forward to hear you at Audio Mostly 2007, Holger Grossmann on behalf of the Audio Mostly Conference Committee ------------- Please forward this call for papers to anyone who may be interested in participating with our apologies for multiple postings. ------------- Audio Mostly 2007 – 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound http://www.audiomostly.com September 27 - 28, 2007 Ilmenau, Germany hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT CALL FOR PAPERS ------------- Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue - holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, dramatize and enthrall. However, in computer-based environments, for example games, nowadays the interaction abilities through and with sound are still underrepresented. The Audio Mostly Conference provides a venue to explore and promote this untapped potential of audio by bringing together audio experts, content creators, interaction designers, and behavioral researchers. Our area of interest covers new sound applications that demand or allow for some kind of interactive response from their listener, particularly in scenarios where screens and keyboards are unavailable, unsuitable or disturbing. This area implies cognitive research and psychology, as well as technological innovations in audio analysis, processing and rendering. The aim is to both describe and push the boundaries of sound-based interaction in various domains, such as gaming, serious gaming, education, entertainment, safety and healthcare. Paper Submissions: We ask researchers, composers, game developers, audio engineers, etc. who are interested in sharing their results, perspectives and insight to a multidisciplinary audience to submit abstracts of 300-500 words for paper or poster submissions before June 22, 2007. Please specify if your abstract is for a paper or a poster. Also position papers from industrial strategists are welcome. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by July 8, 2007. Final submissions are due on August 24, 2007. Areas of Interest (including but not limited to): - Games designed around audio and sound - Interactivity through sound and speech - Semantic speech, music, sound analysis - Music recommendations and user feedback - Semantic audio processing - Cognition of sound and music - New auditory user interfaces - Sound design for games - Spatial audio rendering - Interactive composing & authoring of music - Audio in teaching - Sound in mobile applications - New developments for audio broadcasting, podcasting and audiobooks - Future uses of sound Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission - June 22 Notification of acceptances - July 8 Final paper submission - August 24 Deadline for registration - September 7 Conference - September 27-28 For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.audiomostly.com/ or contact us at info(a)audiomostly.com Furthermore, we plan to focus a special paper session on the area of children's media, an area that is of special interest to our region here in Thuringia (see http://invest-in-thueringen.org/fileadmin/www/pdfs/EN/publications/flyer-me…). Thus, any submissions dedicated to the questions of audio interaction in media applications for kids or adolescents, such as audio & learning, music education or games for children, etc. are in particular welcome.