Like other design disciplines, Sonic Information Design has the aspiration that artificial sounds may be designed to make the world a better place.

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.

KeyNote Addresses
	Dr Viveka Turnbull Hocking A Design-led Approach: opening up a cross-disciplinary discourse into design research.	Dr George Khut Biofeedback and beyond.	Assoc Prof Adrian KC Lee Auditory scene analysis, object formation and selection and their implications with respect to stream-based sonification.

In addition to more traditional ICAD themes, 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:

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 For more information, go to the Call For Participation

This conference is in Australia, not Austria, because there are

This year's conference is hosted in

CANBERRA

School of Music
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY