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[AUDITORY] 1st call for papers: AUDICTIVE conference Aachen



CALL FOR PAPERS: AUDICTIVE Conference 2023

AUDITORY COGNITION IN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

The conference will be a leading event in the areas of acoustics, auditory cognition, and interactive virtual environments for research purposes. It is a great opportunity for participants to meet in person, to expand their knowledge, to share new techniques and competences.


1st Call for Papers

Submission and registration start: 9 January 2023

Deadline for abstract submissions: 10 February 2023 

Deadline for full paper submission: 28 April 2023

Conference dates: 20 June – 22 June 2023 

In person conference @ SuperC - RWTH Aachen University

 

AUDICTIVE CONFERENCE 2023

With recent developments in hardware- and software technologies, audiovisual virtual reality (VR) has reached a high level of perceptual plausibility that overcomes the limitations of simple laboratory settings. Applying interactive VR technology is expected to help understand auditory cognition in complex audiovisual scenes that are close to real life, including acoustically adverse situations such as classrooms, open-plan offices, multi-party communication or outdoor scenarios with multiple (and moving) sound sources. In particular, VR enables controlled research on how acoustic and visual components and further contextual factors affect the ability to interact with the scene, e.g. freely moving in it.

To best integrate research in auditory cognition and VR, it is required that aspects from the three scientific disciplines of acoustics, cognitive psychology, and virtual reality/computer science are addressed. The cooperation between researchers from these fields allows synergetic effects which cannot be achieved by a single discipline. The AUDICTIVE conference targets fundamental research across the three disciplines and addressing the three research priorities (a) "auditory cognition," (b) "interactive audiovisual virtual environments," and (c) "quality evaluation methods," the latter being located at the interface between (a) and (b).

We invite submissions to the conference that are original proposals and contribute to fundamental research and interdisciplinary findings. This conference brings together researchers from different fields of acoustics, cognitive psychology, and virtual reality while also extending a warm welcome to related presentations coming from other fields. The theme of the conference can be addressed in three interrelated subthemes:

  1. To what extent are recent theories of auditory cognition and related empirical findings applicable in a more life-like environment created by interactive audiovisual VR?
  2. How can the realism and vibrancy of audiovisual virtual environments be brought to a higher level, both in terms of audiovisual representation as well as user interaction, based on the findings from auditory cognition research?
  3. What are suitable and novel quality evaluation methods that enable the systematic and efficient assessment of VR systems (cf. b) in light of the targeted auditory cognition research (cf. a)?

Please, address your contribution to one of the following submission formats:  

  • (1) If you are a member of the AUDICTIVE project: Oral presentations (one 20 min presentation per project + 7 min Q & A) and extended abstract or short paper (2-4 pages).
  • (2) If you are not a member of the AUDICTIVE project: Poster presentations and extended abstract or short paper (2-4 pages). 

We are very excited to announce the tentative schedule for the AUDICTIVE conference in Aachen. We have two outstanding keynote-speakers: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Director of Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, and Alexandra Bendixen, Professor of Structure and function of cognitive systems at TU Chemnitz. The third keynote speaker will be announced soon.

KEY DATES:

09 January 2023             Registration and abstract submission opens 

10 February 2023       Abstract submission deadline

28 February 2023            Notification of acceptance 

28 April 2023                   Submission of final papers

26 May 2023           Registration closes 

20 June - 22 June 2023   Conference @ SuperC, RWTH Aachen University

 

For questions, please contact: audictive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

REGISTRATION AND FEE 

The conference is free of charge and includes refreshments during the day and the conference dinner. However, a small contribution towards the conference dinner has to be paid in the amount of € 20. In order for an accepted submission to be included in the conference program and proceedings, at least one of the submissions’ authors has to register and present the poster at the conference.


We look forward to seeing you in Aachen in June 2023,

Janina Fels (Spokesperson and Coordinator of the priority program AUDICTIVE) and Jamilla Balint (coordination project)

on behalf of
Alexander Raake, Steven van de Par, Sabine Schlittmeier, and Torsten Kuhlen