ICAD 97

The Fourth
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDITORY DISPLAY

Palo Alto, California
November 2-5, 1997

Sponsors: XEROX PARC     Interval Research     Headspace     Microsoft Research
                    The Office of Naval Research       The National Science Foundation

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1997

Preconference workshops 8:30-4:30 (approximately - check with workshop organizers)
Holiday Inn, Palo Alto

National Science Foundation Workshop on Sonification
Gregory Kramer, Clarity/Santa Fe Institute, kramer@listen.com

Office of Naval Research Workshop on Audio on the WWW
Michael C. Albers, Sun Microsystems, michael.albers@Eng.Sun.COM

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1997

NOTE:
Full Papers are 22 minutes plus 8 minutes for questions
Short Papers are 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions


Transport from Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn to PARC (8:15 am)
Registration (8:00-9:00 am; auditorium lobby)
Breakfast (8:30-9:00 am; lobby & patio area of auditorium)
Welcome & Introductory Remarks (9:00-9:15 am)

Keynote (9:15-10:15 am)
Thomas Dolby Robertson, Headspace, Inc.
(http://www.headspace.com)

Break (10:15-10:45 am)

Session 1 (10:45-12:00 am) Lessons from Perception
Long

Experimental Evaluation of Auditory Display and Sonification of
Textured Images.
Antonio Cesar Germano Martins & Rangaraj Mandayam Rangayyan

Congruency Effects with Dynamic Auditory Stimuli: Design Implications.
Bruce N. Walker & Addie Ehrenstein

Short

Auditory Scene Analysis as the Basis for Designing Auditory Widgets.
Evangelos N. Mitsopoulos & Alistair D. N. Edwards

Lunch (12:00 - 1:00 pm, lobby & patio area of auditorium)

Session 2 (1:00-2:30 pm) Collaborative and Virtual Environments
Long

Exclude and Include for Audio Sources and Sinks: Analogs of
mute/solo & cue are deafen/confide & harken.
Michael Cohen

Spatial Audio Teleconferencing - Which Way is Better?
Michael J. Evans, Anthony I. Tew & James A. S. Angus

Short

COOLVR: Implementing Audio in a Virtual Environments Toolkit
Jarrell Pair & Rob Kooper

Virtual Environment Simulation - Advances in the DIVA Project.
Lauri Savioja, Jyri Huopaniemi, Tapio Lokki, & Riitta Vaananen

Break (2:30-3:00 pm)

Session 3 (3:00-4:00 pm) Sonification
Long

Use of Sound for the Interpretation of Impact-Echo Signals
M. L. Valenzuela, M. J. Sansalone, C. L. Krumhansl & W. B. Streett

Short

A Platform for Audiovisual Seismic Interpretation
Sigurd Saue & Ola Kr. Fjeld

MUSE: A Musical Data Sonification Toolkit
Suresh K. Lodha, John Beahan, Travis Heppe, Abigail Joseph,
& Brett Zane-Ulman


Break (4:00-4:30 pm)

Open Mic Session (4:30-5:30 pm)


Dinner (5:45-7:00 pm; PARC dining room)

Experiences in Sound Panel (7:00-8:30 pm; PARC)

Transport back to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn (8:30-9:00 pm)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1997

Transport from Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn to PARC (8:15 am)
Breakfast (8:30 - 9:00 am; lobby & patio area of auditorium)
Announcements (9:00-9:15 am)

Session 4 (9:15-10:45 am) Audio Infrastructure
Long

DirectAnimation- A New Approach to Multimedia.
Ken Greenebaum

Using Wavelets to Synthesize Stochastic-based Sounds for Immersive
Virtual Environments.
Nadine E. Miner & Thomas P. Caudell

Short

Perceptually Based Scheduling Algorithms for Real-time Synthesis of
Complex Sonic Environments.
Hesham Fouad, James K. Hahn & James A. Ballas

Mapping Data and Audio Using an Event-Driven Audio Server for
Personal Computers.
Michael Hamman & Camille Goudeseune

Short Break (10:45-11:00 am)

Session 4 (11:00-12:00 am) Algorithm Understanding
Long

The CAITLIN Auralization System: Hierarchical Leitmotif Design as
a Clue to Program Comprehension.
James L. Alty & Paul Vickers

FAUST: A Framework for Algorithm Understanding and Sonification Testing.
Jessica R. Weinstein & Perry R. Cook

Lunch (12:00 - 1:00 pm, lobby & patio area of auditorium)

Demo Setup (12:00-2:30) (Take box lunches, shuttle to demos leaves at 12:10)
PARC tour (1:00-2:00 pm) (Shuttle to demos leaves at 2:15)
Breakout Groups (1:00-2:30 pm) (Shuttle to demos leaves at 2:30)

Demo and Poster Reception (2:30-4:30 pm)

Evening Entertainment (4:30-6:00 pm)

Transport back to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn (6:00-6:30 pm)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1997

Morning

Transport from Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn to PARC (8:15 am)
Breakfast (8:30-9:00; lobby & patio area of auditorium)

Session 6 (9:00-10:00 am) Augmented Reality
Long

Audio Aura: Light-Weight Audio Augmented Reality
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want & Ron Frederick

Short

Design of Spatialized Audio in Nomadic Environments
Nitin Sawhney & Chris Schmandt

KnowWhere:TM An Audio/Spatial Interface for Blind People.
Dr. Myron W. Krueger & Dr. Deborah Gilden

Break (10:00-10:30 am)

Session 7 (10:30-11:30 am) Auditory Interface Design

Short
The Design and Evaluation of a Sonically-Enhanced Tool Palette.
Stephen A. Brewster & Catherine V. Clarke

A Visual User Interface for Creation and Manipulation of Auditory
Scenes.
Alireza Darvishi

Learning and Retention of Auditory Warnings.
Ying K. Leung, Sean Smith, Simon Parker, & Russell Martin

Browsing the World Wide Web in a Non-Visual Environment.
Michael Wynblatt, Dan Benson & Arding Hsu


ICAD Planning Meeting (11:30-1:00 pm)
The meeting will include a working lunch.

Early Transport to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn (1:15 pm)
For those East Coasters who must catch a ~4:00 pm plane]


Workshop Reports (1:00-1:45 pm)

Short Break (1:45-2:00 pm)

Closing Plenary (2:00-3:00 pm)
Mark Mangini, Weddington Productions
(http://www.weddington.com)

Closing Remarks (3:00-3:30 pm)

End of Conference

Transport to Holiday Inn & Mermaid Inn (4:30 pm)

[Transport to airport on your own; e.g., Santa Clara Airporter
(fare to/from San Francisco International Airport is $18 one-way).
You can call the shuttle service at 415-771-7710 to arrange transport
in advance.]