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Final ICAD'98 programme

Updated 31st October 2001

FOREWORD

Sunday 1 November (tutorial/workshop day)

Department of Computing Science, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow

8:30

Registration

9:30-13:00*

Tutorial 1: Sounds of action sounds of silence
Mikael Fernstrom

Tutorial 2: Sonic Framing: Relating aural perception to visual experience
Eric Somers

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-17:30*

Tutorial 3: User-centred design principles and their application in the effective design of auditory displays
Bruce Walker

Tutorial 4: Psychophysics and technology of virtual acoustic displays
Ville Pulkki, Tapio Lokki and Jyri Huopaniemi

18:30

ICAD Board Meeting

(* There will be coffee breaks at 11:00 and 16:00)

Monday 2 November

Senate Room, University of Glasgow

Registration

08:30



Opening

09:15



Session 1: Keynote Chair: Steve Brewster

09:30


Perceptual organization and auditory displays Albert Bregman

Coffee

10:30



Session 2: Auditory interfaces for visually disabled users
Chair: Paul Vickers

11:00

2.1

The Use of Non-Speech Sounds in Non-Visual Interfaces to the MS-Windows GUI for Blind Computer Users Helen Petrie, Sarah Morley, Sensory Disabilities Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire


11:15

2.2

AB-Web : Active audio browser for visually impaired and blind users Patrick Roth, Lori Petrucci, Thierry Pun, André Assimacopoulos, Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva


11:30

2.3

A Principled Methodology for the Specification and Design of Non-Visual Widgets Evangelos N. Mitsopoulos, Alistair D. N. Edwards, Department of Computer Science, University of York
Audio 1 Audio 2 Audio 3


11:45

2.4

Exploration of Non-seen Diagrams David J. Bennett, Alistair D. N. Edwards, Department of Computer Science, University of York

Lunch

12:00


NSF Status Report and Research Agenda for Sonification, John H. Flowers et al.


13:30


Steve Arnold, President of ICMA

Session 3: Sonification
Chair: Jim Alty

13:45

3.1

A Pedagogy of Creative Thinking based on Sonification of Visual Structures and Visualization of Aural Structures Eric Somers, State University of New York, Dutchess Community College


14:00




14:15

3.2

Data Collection and Analysis Techniques for Evaluating the Perceptual Qualities of Auditory Stimuli Terri L. Bonebright, Nadine E. Miner, Timothy E. Goldsmith, Thomas P. Caudell, Dept of Psychology, DePauw University


14:30




14:45

3.3

Sonically-Enhanced Drag and Drop Stephen A Brewster, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Audio 2 Audio 3 Audio Exa


15:00




15:15

3.4

After Direct Manipulation - Direct Sonification Mikael Fernström, Caolan McNamara, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick

Coffee

15:30



Session 4: HCI
Chair: Michael Evans

16:00

4.1

'Observing' the Workplace Soundscape: Ethnography and Auditory Interface Design Catriona Macaulay, Alison Crerar, Department of Computing, Napier University


16:15




16:30

4.2

Audible Information Design in the New York City Subway System: A Case Study Benjamin U. Rubin, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University


16:45

4.3

Acoustic Rendering as Support for Sustained Attention During Biomedical Procedures Emil Jovanov, Dusan Starcevic, Kristen Wegner, Daniel Karron, Vlada Radivojevic, University of Belgrade


17:00

4.4

Towards some Organising Principles for Musical Program Auralisations Paul Vickers, James L. Alty, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University


17:15

4.5

Sound + Image in Design Millicent Cooley, Carnegie Mellon University

Close

17:30



18:00-19:00 ICAD Board Meeting

19:30 - 22:00 Lord Provost's Reception, Glasgow City Chambers

Tuesday 3 November

Senate Room, University of Glasgow

Session 5: Auditory interfaces
Chair: Eric Somers

09:00

5.1

A simulation approach to the design and evaluation of auditory interfaces in a high speed train driving cab Peggy Zwolinski, Jean-Claude Sagot, Institut Polytechnique de Sévenans. L'Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Audio 1 Audio 2 Audio 3


09:15




09:30

5.2

Using Sonic Hyperlinks in Web-TV Norbert Braun, Ralf Dörner, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics


09:45




10:00

5.3

LiteFoot - Auditory Display of Footwork Mikael Fernström, Niall Griffith, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick


10:15

5.4

Sound Retrieval with Intuitive Verbal Expressions Sanae Wake, Toshiyuki Asahi, NEC Human Media Research Labs
Audio 1 Audio 3 Audio 4 Audio 6 Audio 7 Audio 11 Audio 13 Audio 14 Audio 15

Coffee

10:30



Session 6: Navigation
Chair: Perry Cook

11:00

6.1

An Investigation of Using Music to Provide Navigation Cues Grégory Lepâtre, Stephen A Brewster, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Audio 1_1 Audio 1_1_1 Audio 1_1_1_1 Audio 1_1_2 Audio 1_1_2_1 Audio 1_1_3 Audio 1_2 Audio 1_2_1 Audio 1_2_1_1 Audio 1_2_2 Audio 1_2_2_1 Audio 1_2_3 Audio 1_3 Audio 1_3_1 Audio 1_3_1_1 Audio 1_3_2 Audio 1_3_3 Audio 1_3_3_1 Audio 1_4 Audio 1_4_1 Audio 1_4_2 Audio 1_4_2_1 Audio 1_4_3 Audio 1_4_3_1


11:15




11:30

6.2

Surgical Navigation System and Method Using Audio Feedback Kristen Wegner, Computer Aided Surgery Incorporated


11:45



Lunch

12:00



Trip to Loch Lomond and Stirling Castle

13:00



19:30 - 00:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 4 November

Senate Room, University of Glasgow

Session 7: Auditory icons & earcons
Chair: Alistair Edwards

09:00

7.1

'The Sound of Silence': A Preliminary Experiment Investigating Non-Verbal Auditory Representations in Telephone-Based Automated Spoken Dialogues David Williams, Christine Cheepen, Vocalis Ltd
Audio Listen Audio Process


09:15




09:30

7.2

Ad-hoc synthesis of auditory icons Stéphane Conversy, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique - Université de Paris-Sud


09:45




10:00

7.3

Using Earcons and Icons in Categorisation Tasks to Improve Multimedia Interfaces Myra P. Bussemakers, Abraham de Haan, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Catholic University of Nijmegen


10:15

7.4

Making Progress With Sounds - The Design & Evaluation Of An Audio Progress Bar Murray Crease, Stephen Brewster, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Audio 1 Audio 2 Audio 3 Audio Exa

Coffee

10:30



Session 8: Virtual reality
Chair: John Flowers

11:00

8.1

Speech Intelligibility in Adverse Conditions in Recorded Virtual Auditory Environments Nancy L. Vause, D. Wesley Grantham, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Human Research and Engineering Directorate


11:15




11:30

8.2

A Spatial Auditory Display for the CyberStage Gerhard Eckel, MD - German National Research Center for Information Technology


11:45

8.3

Creating Auditory Displays with Multiple Loudspeakers using VBAP: A Case Study with DIVA project Ville Pulkki, Tapio Lokki, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology

Lunch

12:00



DEMOS

12:30



Open Mike
Chair: Steve Brewster

13:30



Session 9: Spatial audio
Chair: Terri Bonebright

13:45

9.1

Synthesising Moving Sounds Michael J. Evans, School of Computer Science, Cybernetics and Electronic Engineering, University of Reading


14:00




14:15

9.2

Sound Traffic Control: An Interactive 3-D Audio System for Live Musical Performance Naut Humon, Bill Thibault, Vance Galloway, Garnet Willis, Jessica Grace Wing, Sound Traffic Control


14:30



Coffee

14:45




15:00

9.3

Do Localised Auditory Cues in Group Drawing Environments matter? Rameshsharma Ramloll, John Mariani, Co-operative Systems Engineering Group, Lancaster University


15:15




15:30

9.4

Case Study of a Software Structure for a 3D-Audio-Device Thomas Lehmann, Heinz Nixdorf Institute


15:45

9.5

N>>2: Multi-speaker Display Systems for Virtual Reality and Spatial Audio Projection Perry R Cook, Georg Essl, Georgos Tzanetakis, Dan Trueman, Department of Comptuer Science (also Music) Princeton University
Audio 1 Audio 2 Audio 3

Session 10: Plenary
Chair: Alistair Edwards

16:00


Report-back on tutorials. ICAD 99


16:15



Session 11: Keynote
Chair: Alistair Edwards

16:30


The SonicFinder - What Was I Thinking? Bill Gaver

Close

17:30