Tuesday, 19 June

Accessibility Session

Cognitive-map forming of the blind in virtual sound environment
Makoto Ohuchi, Yukio Iwaya & Yôiti Suzuki ([Tohoku University]); Tetsuya Munekata ([National Institute of Special Education]).
Providing a size-independent overview of non-visual tables
Johan Kildal & Stephen Brewster ([University of Glasgow]).
Trajectory capture in frontal plane geometry for visually impaired
Martin Talbot & Bill Cowan ([University of Waterloo]).

Design Process Session

Auditory alarms, medical standards, and urgency
Penelope Sanderson, Seah Eunice, Lacherez Philippe & Wee Alexandra ([The University of Queensland]).
Addons: [OXYGEN-CARDIOVASCULAR-OVERLAP.WAV] [OXYGEN-HI-P.WAV]
Sonification as an interdisciplinary working process
Alberto de Campo ([University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz]); Christopher Frauenberger ([Graz University of Technology]); Katharina Vogt ([University of Graz]); Annette Wallisch ([Medical University Graz]); Christian Dayé ([University of Graz]).
The role of participatory workshops in investigating narrative and sound ecologies in the design of an ambient intelligence audio display
Milena Droumeva & Ron Wakkary ([Simon Fraser University]).

Earcons/Auditory Icons Session

Advantages and issues with concurrent audio presentation as part of an auditory display
David McGookin & Stephen Brewster ([University of Glasgow]).
Investigating concurrent auditory icon recognition
Eoin Brazil & Mikael Fernström ([University of Limerick]).
Scalable earcons: bridging the gap between intermittent and continuous auditory displays
Marcus Watson ([The University of Queensland]).
Spearcons: speech-based earcons improve navigation performance in auditory menus
Bruce N. Walker, Amanda Nance & Jeffrey Lindsay ([Georgia Institute of Technology]).

Data Exploration Session

A malleable device with applications to sonification-based data exploration
Matthias Milczynski, Thomas Hermann, Till Bovermann & Helge Ritter ([Bielefeld University]).
Tangible data scanning sonification model
Till Bovermann, Thomas Hermann & Helge Ritter ([Bielefeld University]).

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Wednesday, 21 June

Auditory Graphs Session

Audio representation of graphs: a quick look
Andy Brown, Robert Stevens & Steve Pettifer ([University of Manchester]).
Contextual audio in haptic graph browsing
David McGookin & Stephen Brewster ([University of Glasgow]).
Relative intensity of auditory context for auditory graph design
Michael A. Nees & Bruce N. Walker ([Georgia Institute of Technology]).

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Thursday, 22 June

Perception Session

Meanings conveyed by the simple auditory rhythm
Henni Palomäki ([University of Jyväskylä]).
Sound and soundscape classification: establishing key auditory dimensions and their relative importance
Iain McGregor, Grégory Leplâtre, Alison Crerar & David Benyon ([Napier University]).
Using psychoacoustical models for auditory display
Sam Ferguson, Densil Cabrera, Kirsty Beilharz & Hong Jun Song ([University of Sydney]).

Presence Session

An architecture for presenting auditory awareness information in pervasive computing environments
Anssi Kainulainen, Markku Turunen & Jaakko Hakulinen ([University of Tampere]).
Detection and localization of speech in the presence of competing speech signals
Brian Simpson & Douglas Brungart ([Air Force Research Laboratory]); Robert Gilkey ([Wright State University]); Nandini Iyer ([Air Force Research Laboratory]); James Hamil ([General Dynamics]).

Design Theory & Methods Session

Non-speech sounds as elements of a use scenario: a semiotic perspective
Antti Pirhonen ([University of Jyväskylä]); Emma Murphy, Graham McAllister & Wai Yu ([Queens University of Belfast]).
Patterns in auditory menu design
Christopher Frauenberger & Tony Stockman ([Queen Mary University of London]).

Medical Applications Session

Sonified epileptic rhythms
Gerold Baier ([University of Morelos]); Thomas Hermann ([Bielefeld University]); Sven Sahle ([EML Research gGmbH]); Ulrich Stephani ([University of Kiel]).
The sonification of EMG data
Sandra Pauletto ([The University of Huddersfield]); Andy Hunt ([The University of York]).
Vocal sonification of pathologic EEG features
Thomas Hermann ([Bielefeld University]); Gerold Baier ([Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos]); Ulrich Stephani ([University of Kiel]); Helge Ritter ([Neuroinformatics Group]).

Applications Session

An interactive approach for teaching information sonification
Kirsty Beilharz, Sam Ferguson, Hong Jun Song & Densil Cabrera ([University of Sydney]).
Listening to program slices
Lewis Berman & Keith Gallagher ([University of Durham]).
Addons: [ac_code_data.xls] [ac_main.pdf] [slice_sonif.htm] [sonif1.wav] [sonif2_1in_1out.wav] [sonif2_1out.wav] [sonif2_47in_51out.wav] [sonif2_and_3.mp3] [sonif2.wav]
Monitoring real-time data streams: a sonification approach
Agnieszka Roginska ([AuSIM]); Edward Childs ([Accentus LLC]); Kimo Johnson ([Dartmouth College]).

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Friday, 23 June

Sound & Gesture Session

Expressive audio synthesis: from performances to sounds
Gianluca D'Incà & Luca Mion ([University of Padova]).
Sonically-enhanced mouse gestures in the Firefox browser
Louise Midgley & Paul Vickers ([Northumbria University]).
Sonification of musicians ancillary gestures
Vincent Verfaille, Oswald Quek & Marcelo Wanderley ([McGill University]).

Music & Sonification Session

Converting images to music using their colour properties
Dimitrios Margounakis & Dionysios Politis ([Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]).
Orbophone: a new interface for radiating sound and image
Damien Lock & Greg Schiemer ([University Of Wollongong]).
Sonification abstraite/sonification concrete: an 'æsthetic perspective space' for classifying auditory displays in the Ars Musica domain
Paul Vickers ([Northumbria University]); Bennett Hogg ([University of Newcastle upon Tyne]).

Spatial Audio Session

Investigation of system latency detection threshold of virtual auditory display
Satoshi Yairi, Yukio Iwaya & Yôiti Suzuki ([Tohoku University]).
Investigation of the effect of impedance on azimuth cues derived from spherical head models
Bradley Treeby, Roshun Paurobally & Jie Pan ([University of Western Australia]).
Transfer effects of playing a virtual three-dimensional auditory game: influences on the performance in a communication task and a collision avoidance task
Akio Honda, Hiroshi Shibata, Jiro Gyoba, Yukio Iwaya & Yôiti Suzuki ([Tohoku University]).

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