Dear list,
following the previous successful editions of IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop - Sonic Interactions for Virtual Environments. With renewed enthusiasm, we are proud to announce the submission deadlines for 2021.
In this SIVE edition, we are launching the call for musical events and installations in a shared virtual place. Check this out!
SIVE 2021 will be free to attend.
with best wishes for the New Year.
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CALL FOR PAPERS, MUSIC, and INSTALLATIONS
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This year’s SIVE workshop will run virtually and will include papers and posters presentations but also musical events, installations and a Karaoke session!
Sonic interaction design is defined as the study and exploitation of sound as one of the principal channels conveying information, meaning, and aesthetic/ emotional qualities in interactive contexts. This field lies at the intersection of interaction design, and sound and music computing.
In the virtual reality community, the focus on research in topics related to auditory feedback has been rather limited when compared, for example, to the focus placed on visual feedback or even on haptic feedback. However, in communities such as the film community or the product sound design community it is well known that sound is a powerful way to communicate meaning and emotion to a scene or a product.
The main goal of this workshop is to increase among the virtual reality community the awareness of the importance of sonic elements when designing virtual/augmented/mixed reality environments (XR hereafter). We will also discuss how research in other related fields such as film sound theory, product sound design, sound and music computing, game sound design and computer music can inform designers of XR environments. Moreover, the workshop will feature state of the art research on the field of sound for XR environments.
Submissions of research papers outlining ongoing researches in the field of interactive sound for virtual environments are welcome.
Topics can include, but are not limited to:
- Sound synthesis and design for XR environments
- Sound modelling and rendering for XR environments
- Multisensory (audio-visual and/or audio-haptics) interactions and 3DUI
- Gestural control and action-sound mapping in XR
- Perception-action loop in multimodal XR
- Sound spatialisation and auralization
- Binaural sound and head-related transfer functions
- Headphones and speakers reproduction
- Mobile XR applications and technologies of interactive sonification
- Evaluation of user experience and sound quality
- Industrial design and prototyping of XR software and hardware supporting research in sound (product design, ergonomics, human-machine interfaces)
- Virtual prototyping of devices and interactions involving sound
The SIVE 2021 workshop is supported by the Sound and Music Computing network:
http://smcnetwork.org and the Nordic Sound and Music Computing Network:
nordicsmc.create.aau.dkThe submission website is:
https://new.precisionconference.com/ (opening and advertised no more than a week before the abstract submission deadline)
We consider five categories of contributions:
(C1) Papers should be 4-6 pages in length and prepared using the IEEE Computer Society conference style format described at:
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html . For accepted papers, authors must prepare a 5 minutes video to be delivered during the workshop.
(C2) Posters should be 2-4 pages in length and prepared according to the same template.
(C3) 1-page abstracts (using the conference style format) describing open-source XR scenarios for testing and evaluating sonic interactions within authors' past and future works. This would be a practical contribution to the virtual reality community in order to support experimental replicability and building a collection of reference XR scenes for robust scientific advances.
(C4) Music that can be performed online. Abstract submission only required, supplementary materials such as video/audio files are optional.
(C5) Demos that can be experienced in Altspace VR. Abstract submission only required, supplementary materials such as video/audio files are optional.
Accepted contributions will be included in the IEEE VR Workshop Proceedings and will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Scopus indexing service and more). Moreover, accepted XR testing scenarios will be hosted in a public repository linked to our SIVE official website (
https://sive.create.aau.dk/)
At least one author per paper should register and take part at the workshop to present the work.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Abstract submission deadline: January 15th, 2021
* Paper submission deadline: January 20th, 2021
* Notification of acceptance (all categories): January 31st, 2021
* Camera-ready: February 12th, 2020 for inclusion in IEEE Digital Library
* SIVE Workshop: March 28th, 2021
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SCHEDULE
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Morning: quick papers presentations with videos (max 5 minutes), followed by discussion.
Early afternoon: poster session, demoes and virtual installations.
Late afternoon: concert.
Evening: virtual karaoke.
SIVE 2021 will be free to attend. Details for the registration soon.
ORGANIZERS
Stefania Serafin (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Michele Geronazzo (University of Udine)
Federico Avanzini (University of Milano)
Cumhur Erkut (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Francesco Grani (HERE technologies)
Niels Christian Nilsson (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Ali Adjorlu (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Rolf Nordahl (Aalborg University Copenhagen)