ICAD 96
The Conference Schedule for
The International Conference on Auditory Display '96
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1996
Transport from Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn to PARC (8:00 - 8:30 am)
Continental Breakfast (8:30-9:30 am;
lobby & patio area of auditorium)
Welcome & Introductory Remarks (9:30-9:50 am)
Introduction of Karen O'Neill and Susan Cannon
Facilitators for discussing the future of ICAD
Session 1
Sonification: Sonification of low dimensional and image data (9:50-11:00
am)
Full Paper: (Flowers, Buhman, & Turnage) Data sonification from the
desktop:
Should sound be part of standard data analysis software?
Project Reports: (Martins, Rangayyan, Portela, Amaro, & Ruschioni)
Auditory display and sonification of textured images
(Kramer) Mapping a single data stream to multiple auditory variables:
A subjective approach to creating a compelling design
Break (11:00 - 11:30 am)
Sonification: Implementations (11:30 am- 12:30 pm)
Full Papers:
(Vickers & Alty) CAITLIN: A musical program auralisation tool to
assist novice programmers with debugging
(Axen & Choi) Investigating geometric data with sound
Lunch (12:30 - 2:00 pm, lobby &
patio area of auditorium)
Session 2
Sonification Tools (2:00 - 3:50 pm)
Full Paper:
(Dougherty) What does pink sound like?: Designing the audio interface
for the TALOS
(Wilson & S. K. Lodha) LISTEN: A data sonification toolkit
(LoPresti & Harris) LoudSPIRE, an auditory display schema for the
SPIRE system
Project Report:
(Brewster) A sonically-enhanced interface toolkit
Break (3:50 - 4:20 pm)
Session 3
Sonification Applications: Interfaces for the Visually-Impaired (4:20-5:30
pm)
Full Paper:
(Dufresne, Martial, Ramstein & Mabilleau) Sound, Space, and Metaphor:
Multimodal Access to Windows for Blind Users
Project Reports:
(Gardner) TRIANGLE, a practical application of non-speech audio for
imparting information
(Crispien, Fellbaum, Savidis, & Stephanidis) A 3D-auditory environment
for hierarchical navigation in non-visual interaction
Short Break (5:30 - 5:40 pm)
Open Mic Session (5:40 - 6:30 pm)
Dinner (6:30-8:00 pm; PARC dining room)
Industry Forum on the Future Role of Audio (8:00-9:30 pm; PARC)
Moderator: Rich Gold, Xerox PARC
Apple Computer: Richard Lyon, Distinguished Scientist, Apple Research
Labs
Aureal Semiconductor: Scott Foster, Chief Technical Officer
Creative Labs / Emu: Mark Dolson, Senior Scientist / DSP Research Manager
Microsoft: Ken Greenebaum, Software design Engineer
SGI: Kord Taylor, Entertainment Markets Manager, Silicon Studio/Silicon
Graphics
Sun / JavaSoft: David Rivas
Transport back to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn
(9:30 - 10:00 pm)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1996
Transport from Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn
to PARC (8:00 - 8:30 am)
Continental Breakfast (8:30 - 9:30
am; lobby & patio area of auditorium)
Session 4
Design Issues in Auditory Displays (9:30 -11:20 am)
Full Papers:
(Barrass) TaDa! Demonstrations of Auditory Information Design
(Walker & Kramer) Mappings and metaphors in auditory displays:
An experimental assessment.
(Back) Micro-narratives in sound design: Context, character, and caricature
in waveform manipulation
Project Report:
(Tkaczevski) Auditory interface problems and solutions for commercial
multimedia products
Short Break (11:20 - 11:40 am)
Session 5:
Audio & the World Wide Web cont. (11:40 am - 12:40 pm)
Full Papers:
(James) Presenting HTML structure in audio: User satisfaction with
audio hypertext
(Metois & Back) BROWeb: An interactive collaborative auditory environment
on the world wide web
Lunch (12:40 - 2:00 pm, lobby &
patio area of auditorium)
Afternoon
Session 6: Virtual Audio
Interfaces (2:00 - 4:00 pm)
Full Papers:
(Huopaniemi, Savioja, & Takala) DIVA virtual audio reality system
(Brungart & Rabinowitz) Auditory localization in the near-field
(Begault, Wenzel, Shrum & Miller) A virtual audio guidance and
alert system for commercial aircraft operations
(van den Doel & Pai) Synthesis of shape dependent sounds with physical
modeling
Short Break (4:00 - 4:15 pm)
Depart for San Francisco (4:20 pm)
Evening
Transport to San Francisco restaurants near Audium (4:20 - 6:00 pm)
Dinner (6:00 - 7:45 pm)
Performance at the Audium in San Francisco (7:45 - 9:30 pm)
1616 Bush St. (at Franklin), Phone 771-1616
www.slip.net/~audium/
"Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space"
The only theatre of its kind pioneering the exploration of space in music.
169 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over and under them.
"Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in a 49-seat theatre.
Transport back to hotels (9:30 - 10:30 pm)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1996
Transport from Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn
to PARC (8:00 - 8:30 am)
Continental Breakfast (8:30-9:00; lobby
& patio area of auditorium)
Virtual Audio Interfaces (9:00 - 10:20 am)
Project Reports:
(Storms, Biggs, Cockayne, Burnham, Falby, Brutzman & Zyda) The
auralization and acoustics laboratory
(Ballas) Computational Modeling of Multimodal I/O in Simulated Cockpits
(Foner) Artificial synesthesia via sonification: A wearable augmented
sensory system
(Herder & Cohen) Project report: Design of a helical keyboard.
Short Break (10:20-10:40 am)
Session 8
Audio & the World Wide Web (10:40 - 11:30 am)
Full Paper:
(Albers) Auditory cues for browsing, surfing, and navigating the WWW:
The audible web
Project Report:
(Albers & Rivas) Audio's future in the Java language
Short Break (11:30 - 11:40 am)
ICAD Feedback Meeting to discuss the future of ICAD (11:40 am -2:00
pm) facilitated by Karen O'Neill and Susan Cannon.
Early Transport to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn (1:00 - 1:30 pm) [for
those East Coasters who must catch a ~4:00 pm plane]
Demo Session (45-min. each), PARC Auditorium (2:00 - 4:15 pm):
Software Development and Research at:
CCRMA (Stanford)
CNMAT (U.C., Berkeley)
NCSA (Univ. Illinois)
Closing Remarks (4:15-4:30 pm)
End of Conference
Transport to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn (4:30 - 5:00 pm)
[Transport to airport on your own; e.g., Santa Clara Airporter
(fare to/from San Francisco International Airport is $17 one-way).
You can call the shuttle service at 415-771-7710 to arrange transport
in advance.]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CORPORATE SUPPORT:
Santa Fe Institute
Xerox PARC
Aureal Semiconductor
Microsoft Corp.
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Steve Frysinger, James Madison University
Gregory Kramer, CLARITY, Santa Fe Institute
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Rich Gold, Xerox PARC
Steve Frysinger, James Madison University
Gregory Kramer, CLARITY, Santa Fe Institute
Beth Mynatt, Xerox PARC
Beth Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center
REVIEW COMMITTEE:
James A. Ballas, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Stephen Barass, CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Australia
Durand R. Begault, NASA Ames Research Center
Meera Blattner, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow
Jonathan Cohen, Interval Research Corporation
Richard O. Duda, San Jose State University
Steven P. Frysinger, James Madison University
Rich Gold, Xerox PARC
Gregory Kramer, Clarity/Santa Fe Institute
Elizabeth M. Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center
Jack M. Loomis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rich McKinley, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Nadine Miner, University of New Mexico
Beth Mynatt, Xerox PARC
Tom Rettig, Broderbund Software
Lawrence A. Scadden, National Science Foundation
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, MIT
Stuart Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Julius O. Smith III, CCRMA, Stanford University,