Subject: ICAD 2011 - deadline extension - March 18 From: Milena Droumeva <mvdroume@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:43:21 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Applogies for cross-listing ----------------------------------------------------- THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDITORY DISPLAY - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, HOTEL MERCURE BUDA JUNE 20-24, 2011 (Deadline extended until March 18!) URL for conference: http://icad2011.com/ URL for the community: http://www.icad.org/ ICAD is an interdisciplinary conference with relevance to researchers, practitioners, artists, and students working in the use of sound to convey information and ideas. The conference is unique in its specific focus on auditory displays and the range of interdisciplinary issues related to their use. ICAD 2011 will be a single-track conference, open to everybody, with no membership or affiliation requirements. ICAD 2011 invites the submission of new work and developments in all areas of interest to those who work with sound as a medium for conveying information and ideas. The conference emphasizes the concerns shared by those who work primarily with informational and affective aspects of sound including sonification of data and processes, synthetic and composed sound, musical sound, natural sound, and all issues related to interaction with sound, specifically, how it is presented to, and apprehended by, listeners. Thus, submissions are sought on topics that extend from basic research in auditory display, to application domains in the arts and sciences, mobile applications, accessibility, audio technology, information and communications technology, computer games, engineering analysis, medicine, and more. Each year we aim to attract a wide variety of researchers and practitioners to the ICAD community who work in fields that are concerned with and/or related to computationally based, informational uses of sound. Thus, in addition to ICAD's core interests, we hope to attract submissions from composers and artists who use sonification, acoustic synthesis, spatialization, and/or interaction techniques for composition and performance purposes. Although we fully intend to maintain ICAD's primary emphasis on the use of sound as information, we specifically want to encourage a wider and more collaborative dialogue between practitioners with disparate objectives in auditory display. This year's conference also will have an „aural submission” category for sonifications and aural compositions that employ computational auditory display techniques. It is intended that submissions in this category will be presented as part of the oral sessions. Key Dates Submission Deadline for Papers, Posters, and Aural Categories March 18 2011 Acceptance Notification (Papers, etc.) 30 March 2011 Camera-Ready Submissions Deadline, Aural and Sonfication Contest Submission 15 May 2011 ICAD 2011 20-24 June 2011 Theme and Topics for ICAD 2011 - Topics include, but are not limited to: 3D and Spatial Audio Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Culture of Auditory Displays Accessibility Applications Auditory Scene Design Design Theory and Methods Evaluation and Usability Human Factors and Interaction Mappings from Data to Sound Psychology, Cognition, Perception, and Psychoacoustics Sonification and Exploration of Data through Sound Sound as Art Technologies and Tools Papers Papers are oral presentations of a substantial contribution to the field. Full paper submissions should be 6-8 pages, including images and references, and should be accompanied by relevant sound files. Submissions will be subject to blind review by an international committee of peers in the auditory display community. One of the authors must present the paper at the conference for it to appear in the proceedings. Papers must not exceed 8 pages and must comply with ICAD's formatting requirements. Links to the document format templates for this year's conference in LaTeX and Microsoft Word are provided. Authors are strongly encouraged to incorporate auditory display into the presentation of their papers by including examples of the sounds used in their work and/or by sonifying their results. Just as it would be unusual for presentations of papers on graphics not to include visual artefacts, it should be the norm that ICAD paper presentations employ sound in addition to the voice of the speaker. Posters Posters are primarily a forum for discussion of work-in-progress. Submissions should be up to 5 pages, including images and references, and should be accompanied by any relevant sound files. Like papers, posters will be subject to blind review. An international panel will review submissions. Posters will be presented on a single A0 size sheet during the poster session. One of the authors must present the poster at the conference for it to appear in the proceedings. We strongly encourage everyone who is presenting a poster to consider also giving a practical demonstration of their work. In your poster submission you should provide brief details of the demonstration that you will give. Descriptions of demonstrations should include details of the equipment and space you will use. We will assume that you will provide your own equipment to perform the demonstration, though if you believe we may be able to assist in providing standard equipment to help with this please give details in your submission. Sonifications/Compositions/Aural Submissions/Demos Though originally the terms 'sonification' and 'data sonification' referred to the systematic auditory display of data for informational purposes, the terms have recently begun to be used by the music composition and sound-art communities to refer to works produced primarily for aesthetic or artistic purposes. In recognition of this, and the fact that a sharp distinction between the two cannot always be made, similarily to last year, a Sonifications and Compositions submission category has been created for ICAD 2011 that provides participants with an opportunity to present and publish extended instances of auditory work that make a contribution to, and/or exemplify, important informational and listening practices in the field of auditory display. Submissions of auditory material for this category should be one to ten minutes in length and must be accompanied by a one-to-four page abstract that outlines the goals, informational context, and techniques used in the work (the paper-submission template should be used for this purpose). Submissions will be evaluated on the merits of these criteria by a committee of peers in the auditory display community, and must be identified as either a "sonification" or a "composition" for reviewing purposes. Please email the Chair of the category you select if you feel the other category is also applicable. Accepted pieces will be published in audio form (along with the corresponding abstract) in the conference proceedings and will be presented as part of the ICAD 2011 program. A stereo loudspeaker array will be available for participants who wish to use two-channel for their work (if there is extent need for a 5.1 system, we will try to make it happen). Because of the resource requirements, the need to rehearse spatial rendering etc, composers and practitioners contemplating submissions in this category are thus encouraged to contact one of the relevant conference chairpersons (i.e., the Sonifications Chair or Demonstrations/Compositions Chair) to discuss their proposals and ideas well in advance of the conference. Finally, one of the authors must be present to provide a contextual description of the work on the night (or day, if necessary) of its performance. In addition to demonstrations of work presented in papers and posters, we are seeking to encourage submissions of demonstrations and performances of work that doesn't fit into the usual categories of submissions. If you are a developer of sound installations, or use sound in other innovative ways as the primary medium for displaying information, we encourage you to submit details of a demonstration of your work under this category to the conference. Submitted descriptions of demonstrations should explain the nature of your demonstration, and provide details of the equipment and space you will use. We will assume that you will provide your own equipment, though if you believe we may be able to assist in providing any standard items, please provide details in your submission. Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Workshops/Tutorials/Panels are an opportunity to share experiences with an international community of experts. Tutorials/Workshops will run for approximately 2-4 hours, Panels will run for 1 hour. Proposals for sessions in this category should be up to 3-4 pages including title, description, and brief biographies of the presenters. Suggested topics include software and hardware tools and systems, design and analysis of empirical experiments, psychological and perceptual issues, design methods, practical aspects of the process of developing an auditory display, e.g., difficulties encountered, problems solved, guidelines, „Hack day” etc. Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the organizing committee and ICAD's governing Board. Workshops/Tutorials/Panels that are presented at the conference will appear in the proceedings and oral evaluation will be given during a dedicated session during the week. Please send your proposals to the program chair by e-mail not later than 1st April 2011. We plan a half-day or full-day workshop with the blind community in Budapest. We will try to organize blind and visually impaired people to join us, devide them into groups and share our experiences regarding computer use, virtual audio displays, sound design, perception etc. You can present your research, especially if it is some kind of machine, tool, software application - anything dealing with sound to help easing blind people’s life. If there will be more options, we can rotate the groups between „stations”. Please send your comments, ideas and application/proposals for this workshop-day directly to György (George) Wersényi by e-mail to the following address with subject „Blind Workshop Day”: icad.budapest@xxxxxxxx For participating in the Sonification Contest or in the Student ThinkTank, please visit the website for further information and downloadable data. Awards for best paper and best poster will be given by the board. Based on the reviewers’ opinion, selected papers will have the possibility to publish their work in a special issue of the JAES. Committees/Contacts, ICAD 2011 Conference and Program Chairs: György WERSÉNYI, Széchenyi István University Papers/Posters Chair: David WORRALL, Australian National University Demonstrations/Compositions/Aural Chair: Mikael FERNSTRÖM, University of Limerick Student Consortium ThinkTank Chair: Paul VICKERS, Northumbria University Webmaster: Gergely KVOJKA, OPAKFI