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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,

     


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