International Interactive Sonification Meeting
(Human Interaction with Auditory Displays)
organised by Andy Hunt and Thomas Hermann
3rd February 2007,
University of York, UK
www.interactive-sonification.org
The ISon ’07 meeting is the 2nd International meeting on Interactive Sonification, following the initial ISon workshop held in Bielefeld.
The meeting offers the chance:
- to meet experts in sonification,
- to present and demonstrate own research,
- to strengthen your european networking in sonification research, and
- to learn about new exciting trends.
Additional goals of the meeting are:
- to relate research on the topic of gestural control of auditory displays to interactive sonification
- to survey the requirements for building Interactive Sonification systems
- to establish a network of interested researchers in the field and exchange experiences
High quality will be assured by a peer-reviewing process, and besides a web publication we might decide to transform the proceedings into a special journal issue, as in the 1st ISon meeting, see IEEE Multimedia Special Issue on Interactive Sonification.
About ISon
Sonification & Auditory Displays are increasingly becoming an established technology for exploring data, monitoring complex
processes, or assisting exploration and navigation of data spaces.
Sonification addresses the auditory sense by transforming data into sound, allowing the human user to get valuable information from data by using their natural listening skills. The main differences of sound displays over visual displays are that
sound can:
- Represent frequency responses in an instant (as timbral characteristics)
- Represent changes over time, naturally
- Allow microstructure to be perceived
- Rapidly portray large amounts of data
- Alert listener to events outside the current visual focus
- Holistically bring together many channels of information
Auditory displays typically evolve over time since sound is inherently a temporal phenomenon. Interaction thus becomes an integral part of the process in order to select, manipulate, excite or control the display, and this has implications for the interface between humans and computers. In recent years it has become clear that there is an important need for research to address the interaction with auditory displays more explicitly. nteractive Sonification is the specialized research topic concerned with the use of sound to portray data, but where there is a human being at the heart of an interactive control loop. Specifically it deals with:
- interfaces between humans and auditory displays,
- mapping strategies and models for creating coherency between action and reaction (e.g. acoustic feedback, but also combined with haptic or visual feedback)
- perceptual aspects of the display (how to relate actions and sound, e.g. cross-modal effects, importance of synchronisation)
- applications of Interactive Sonification
- evaluation of performance, usability and multi-modal interactive systems including auditory feedback
Although we apply a spotlight on particular situations where there is real-time interaction with sonification systems, the usual community for exploring all aspects of auditory display is ICAD .
Satellite Events
As a satellite meeting to this workshop, a Management Commitee meeting of the EU COST action 287, “ConGAS – Gestural Controlled Audio Systems” takes place on the 2nd February 2007 (starting Friday at 14:00h (2.00pm))
The participation of many international experts to the workshop is expected, and promises that the workshop will be a highly
productive event.
Proceedings/Publication
The peer-reviewed publications will be published on the web site. We will consider to developing the web proceedings into a special issue of an international journal, as we did in the previous workshop.
Programme
Saturday, 3th February 2007
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 | Welcome addresses (Hunt/Hermann) |
| 09:35 | Keynote: Mikael Fernström |
| 10:00-12:00 | Paper Sessions (each 20 mins = 15+5) (chair: Andy Hunt) |
| 10:00 | Till Bovermann: Juggling Sounds |
| 10:20 | Daniel Arfib: Visual textures seen as sonograms. (Is it nice looking and sounding?) |
| 10:40 | Coffee & Juice break |
| 11:00 | John Williamson: Multimodal Excitatory Interfaces with Automatic Content Classification |
| 11:20 | Thilo Hinterberger: Orchestral Sonification of Brain Signals and its Application to Brain-Computer Interfaces and Arts |
| 11:40 | Thomas Hermann: Tangible Computing for Interactive Sonification of Multivariate Data |
| 12:00-13:45 | Lunch Break (You can buy your own at Vanburgh College or visit the pubs in Heslington village) |
| 13:45-15:30 | Short / Work-in-Progress Paper Sessions (15 mins = 10+5) (chair: Thomas Hermann) |
| 13:45 | Tony Stockman: The Design of Interactive Audio Soccer |
| 14:00 | Michael Pelz-Sherman: Suggested Applications of Musical Improvisation Analysis to Interactive Sonificiation |
| 14:15 | Stefania Serafin: Influence of Interactive Auditory Feedback on the Haptic Perception of Virtual Objects |
| 14:30 | Short Break |
| 14:45 | Brian FG Katz: CoRSAIRe – Combination of Sensori-motor Rendering for the Immersive Analysis of Results |
| 15:00 | David Dewhurst: An Audiotactile Vision-Substitution System |
| 15:15 | Alberto de Campo: A Data Sonification Design Space Map |
| 15:30 | Coffee break leading into |
| 15:40 | Demo Sessions |
| 16:40 | Panel |
| 17:10 | Closing words |
| 17:15 | End of Official Programme |
| 18:30 | Dinner (informally; in various places in York) |
Call for Papers (finished)
We invite two forms of presentation:
- Full Papers: 20 min. presentation (15+5), papers in pdf format 4-8 pages
- Work in Progress: 15 min presentation (10+5)
For either of the above categories we ask for an Abstract (approximately a half page) to allow a decision for acceptance (see
important dates below). Abstracts are to be submitted to papers@interactive-sonification.org . Please indicate in the Abstract if you intend to submit multimedia examples.
Authors of accepted papers are asked to prepare their manuscript according to the following document styles, provided here as
LaTeX-template (zip, 180k) or as Word template (doc, 52k)..
For any general enquiries please contact enquiry@interactive-sonification.org
Important Dates
| 29.09.2006 | Deadline for Abstracts |
| 20.11.2006 | Notification of Acceptance |
| 01.12.2006 | Registration Deadline: Early registration is advised as numbers are strictly limited. |
| 20.12.2006 | Deadline for Final Papers |
Registration
Registration will be
| 15 GBP (25 EUR) | students |
| 25 GBP (40 EUR) | academics |
Please register as soon as possible to facilitate our planning simply by sending your commitment to attend to register@interactive-sonification.org. Payment is due at the registration desk, please in cash (EUR or GBP).
Location
Both events will take place at the University of York,
U.K. Physics/Electronics Department. The ConGAS meeting (Friday 2nd
February) will take place on the 3rd floor in the IGDS room. The ISon
meeting (Saturday 3rd February) will take place on the ground floor in
room PL005. Maps of the University Campus can be found here. On this map, the Physics/Electronics building is marked as ’14’. Here you find directions to York. There is also an extensive Travel Information page. However, most people travelling from overseas will find it easiest to fly to Manchester Airport, and to catch a direct train
from the airport to York. From York train station you can either
walk to your York hotel or get a taxi or bus to the University
(actually some people walk there too as it is about 2-3 miles). You
might want to consider having some ‘tourist time’ in York, as it’s a
great place to look round. Detailed tourist information can be
found here.
If in doubt – find your way to the University of York’s
Physics/Electronics’ building, report to the Porter’s Lodge/kiosk and
ask for (Friday) “the ConGAS meeting in the IGDS room” or (Saturday)
“The ISon meeting in PL005”
Accommodation
We are not able to organise any block-booked cheap accommodation on the
University Campus, but actually most people like to get a place in York
City anyway. Roberto Bresin has stayed here a few times and
recommends the following:
Hotels that could be recommended are at walking distance from the university:
- Blue Bridge Hotel is close to a bus stop.
- Bull Lodge
- An alternative might be Lady Anne Middletons Hotel (Ltd)
- Here is a complete list of York hotels and B&B.
Food and drink in York
We are not organising a large ‘banquet’ and charging lots of money for
it. Instead we hope that you will naturally form groups of people who
want to go to a pub or restaurant in York. We are very grateful to
Sandra Pauletto for compiling these two lists of York Pubs and York Restaurants which she has personally tested for us (although not all in one week!!).
Sandra’s pub guide
Tiny quirky pub
The Bluebell Inn (google-map), 53 Fossgate, York, YO1 9TF, 01904 654 904
Small quirky pub
The Maltings (google-map), Tanners Moat, York, YO1 6HU, 01904 655 387
Traditional pub
Red Lion (google-map), 2 Merchant Gate, York, YO1 9TU, 01904 640 418
Traditional pub, good for lunch or dinner as well
- Punch Bowl Inn (google-map), 7 Stonegate, York, YO1 8AN, 01904 615 491
- The Old White Swan (google-map), 80 Goodramgate, York, YO1 7LF, 01904 540 911
- Ye Olde Starre Inne (google-map), 40 Stonegate, York, YO1 8AS, 01904 623 063
- The Royal Oak (google-map), 18 Goodramgate, York, YO1 7LG, 01904 653 856
Sandra’s restaurant guide
Very good, a bit expensive, continental cuisine
The Olive Tree (google-map)
10 Tower St, York, YO1 9SA
01904 624 433
South American style vegetarian
El Piano (google-map)
15-17 Grape Lane, York, YO1 7HU
01904 610 676
Spanish tapas
La Tasca (google-map)
21 Back Swinegate, York, YO1 8AD
01904 521 100
Expensive, quite famous
The Blue Bicycle York Ltd, (google-map)
34 Fossgate, York, YO1 9TA
01904 673 990
A bit expensive, continental cuisine
Masons Bistro Bar (google-map)
13 Fossgate, York, YO1 9TA
01904 611 919
Italian and good for pizza
La Piazza (York) Ltd (google-map)
45 Goodramgate, York, YO1 7LS
01904 642 641
Pizza mainly (a chain restaurant but quite good)
Pizza Express plc (google-map)
River House 17, Museum St, York, YO1 7DJ
01904 672 904
Pizza mainly (a chain restaurant but quite good)
Ask York (google-map)
The Grand Assembly Rooms, Blake St, York, YO1 8QG
01904 637 254
Chinese
Willow Cantonese Restaurant (google-map)
37 Coney St, York, YO1 9QL
01904 654 728
Good Thai food
Siam House Thai Restaurant (google-map)
63a Goodramgate, York, YO1 7LS
01904 624 677