ICAD 2016

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 3 to 7, 2016. The conference venue is the ANU School of Music, in the downtown centre of Canberra. The graduate student ThinkTank (doctoral consortium) will be on Sunday July 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)

	15 February	Submission Deadline for Full Papers, Posters and Extended Abstracts
	14 March	Submission Deadline for Workshop proposals
	28 March	Acceptance Notification of Papers, Posters and Extended Abstracts
	04 April	Submission Deadline for Sonifications / Installations / Compositions
	11 April	Acceptance Notification of Workshop proposals
	02 May	Submissions Deadline for Camera-Ready materials
	16 May	Acceptance Notification of Sonifications / Installations / Compositions
	3 July	Conference ThinkTank
	4-7 July	ICAD1016 Conference Proper (Programme details TBA)

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

Visit the conference website (currently in development) for updates and other information:
     http://icad.org/icad2016/

CORRESPONDENCE

Please address correspondence to: icad2016chair _at_ icad.org

WELCOME!

We look forward to you joining us in making a wonderful conference!



First call for participation, November 2, 2015, ammended