31st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDITORY DISPLAY

Program

This is the ICAD 2026 preliminary program. Please contact us if anything requires correction.

Please note that program screenshots on this page do not contain other information than provided via the HTML text – they only serve to enhance the overview. In the detailed program, first the European time (CEST) is stated, followed by the US time (EDT). Workshops, Sonification Concert and Installations program as well as Locations/Rooms of events for all hubs will be added closer to the conference.

Monday, July 27

  • 17:00 / 11:00 Student ThinkTank: social meeting for participating PhD students (organised at DE hub)

Tuesday, July 28

  • 10:00 / 04:00 Workshops (at DE & ES hubs, in parallel)
  • 13:00 / 7:00 Lunch (resp. Breakfast)
  • 14:00 / 8:00 Conference Opening / Welcome Address
  • 14:15 / 8:15 Keynote Talk: Tony Stockman
  • 15:15 / 9:15 Coffee Break
  • 15:30 / 9:30 Paper Session 1
    • 15:30 / 9:30 Sandscape –> Soundscape: An Embodied Tangible Interface for Perceiving and Composing Spatial Audio. Zhenfang Chen, Yiwei Huang, Yanwen Dong, Daragh Byrne and Dina El Zanfaly (from US hub)
    • 15:45 / 9:45 An EEG-Based AM-FM Sonification Framework for Brain-Computer Music Interfacing Sergio Guillén, Lorenzo J. Tardón, Ana M. Barbancho and Isabel Barbancho (from ES hub)
    • 16:00 / 10:00 Sonification of chemical elements in urban air measurements Katharina Gross-Vogt, Manuel Candussi, David Clases, Jakob Marktl, Maria Mikić and Silvia Wehmeier (from DE hub)
    • 16:15 / 10:15 Real-time EDM-inspired Sonification of Activity of a Supercomputer. Marco Alunno and Paolo Bientinesi (from ES hub)
    • 16:30 / 10:30 From Listening to Mapping: Listener-Oriented Approach of Earcon Design for Spatial Marine Data in Informal Learning. Jon Bellona, Emily Amspoker, Solyane Berge, Jessica Roberts, Leslie Smith and Amy Bower (from US hub)
    • 16:45 / 10:45 What Is Sonification? Toward a Philosophy of Sonification. Rubén García-Benito (from ES hub)
  • 17:00 / 11:00 Coffee Break
  • 17:15 / 11:15 Paper Session 2
    • 17:15 / 11:15 GridSonics: A Real-Time Interactive AC Power Systems Sonification Platform. Patrick Cowden, Luke Dosiek and Marcelo M. Wanderley (from US hub)
    • 17:30 / 11:30 Digital Sound Print: Sonifying Ecoacoustic and Sensor Data from Vatnajökull National Park. Miguel Angel Crozzoli, Garrison Gerard and Thor Magnusson (from ES hub)
    • 17:45 / 11:45 From Underwater Recordings to Musical Structure: Sonification as Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice and Research. Maria Kallionpää and Andre Veloux (from DE hub)
    • 18:00 / 12:00 Echome (and) in mature company: Movement Sonification in Dementia Care Homes. Maria Kapsali (from DE hub)
    • 18:15 / 12:15 A Systematic Review, Thematic Analysis, and Critical Examination of Proposed General Sonification Guidelines. Michael Nees and Alida Smith (from US hub)
    • 18:30 / 12:30 Optimal Pitch Mapping for Parameter Mapping Sonification under Just-Noticeable Difference Constraints. Tong Yu and Lantian Zhang (from ES hub)
  • 18:45 / 12:45 Dinner / Lunch
  • 20:00 / 14:00 Panel on Data Journalism (Chair: J. Wirfs-Brock, Panelists: TBA)
  • 21:00 / 15:00 End of Days (EU) / Workshops (US)

Wednesday, July 29

  • 10:00 in EU: Tech checks for Concerts & Installations
  • 14:00 / 08:00 Keynote Talk – Miguel Alvarez
  • 15:00 / 09:00 Coffee Break
  • 15:15 / 09:15 Papers Session 3:
    • 15:15 / 09:15 The Illusion of Instrument Presence: Perceptual Grounding and Aesthetic Evaluation in Gesture-Based Digital Music Performance Chihiro Mita, Rafael Ramirez and Takayuki Itoh (from DE hub)
    • 15:30 / 09:30 Electronic Fetal Monitoring as Audiovisual Gesture in “Movements of a Remnant”. Sofía Matus Cancino (from US hub)
    • 15:45 / 09:45 On Speculative Sonification: Critically Reflecting on Generative AI Use through Sound Design. Niklas Rönnberg and Jordan Wirfs-Brock (from ES hub)
    • 16:00 / 10:00 Listen to the Sun: Design-led Ecological Sonification of Solar Radiation Data and Related Environmental Variables. Abeer Mohamed and Tony Stockman (from ES hub)
    • 16:15 / 10:15 Sonifying contact: stick-slip dynamics and the fractured haptic-auditory continuum. Julian Rohrhuber and Manuel Eguila (from DE hub)
    • 16:30 / 10:30 A Method to Auto-Calibrate the Sound Pressure Level of Music Performers for Auditory Virtual Environments Using Virtual Microphone Control. Jonas Braasch (from US hub)
  • 16:45 / 10:45 Posters/Demos Session
    • Sonifying Narrative Data with Incomplete and Interpreted Datasets. Kaleb Rhea (from US hub)
    • Auditory Portraits of Glycine: a Reproducible Pipeline for Molecular Sonification and Visual Encoding. M M Abdalhamid (from ES hub)
    • Spatial Articulation in Musical Notation: Static Positions and Dynamic Movement as Complementary Compositional Strategies. Angel Valverde Vilabella (from ES hub)
    • Making Sonification Accessible. Josephine Zettervall and Niklas Rönnberg (from ES hub)
    • Piano Stream Dominance in Spatial Auditory Scene Detection: a Preliminary Study with Musicians and non-Musicians. Emil Zawistowski (from ES hub)
    • ARGIRA: Crossmodal Correspondences Emerging from Painting Sonification. Jose Ranero García (from ES hub)
    • Pulsar Sonification: Period-Preserving Sonification Of Pulsar Populations. Andy Deighton (from ES hub)
    • UN:FOLD – A Jitterbug Feedback System. Florian Goeschke (from DE hub)
    • Navigating Sleep: Neural Audio Synthesis as compositional medium for EEG Data Sonification. Stefanos Vasilakis, Areti Andreopoulou and Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris (from ES hub)
    • Visual Auditory Displays. Proposal of a Taxonomy Informed by Rhythm-Based Video Games. Enrico Dorigatti and Andrea Spontoni (from ES hub)
    • Musical Applications in Interactive Sonification: A Scoping Review. Minsik Choi and Charles Martin (from ES hub)
  • 19:00 / 13:00 Dinner/Lunch
  • 20:00 / 14:00 Sonification Concert in Bielefeld and Barcelona
  • 22:00 / 16:00 End of day EU | Sonification Concert in Troy

Thursday, July 30

  • 10:00 in EU Installations & Demos
  • 13:00 / 19:00 Dinner/Lunch
  • 14:00 / 08:00 Keynote Talk – Julian Rohrhuber
  • 15:00 / 09:00 Coffee Break
  • 15:15 / 09:15 Papers Session 4
    • 15:15 / 09:15 Rule-Based Framework for Automated Audification. Sofia Vallejo Budziszewski and Katharina Gross-Vogt (from DE hub)
    • 15:30 / 09:30 All because we can: An Ambisonic Exploration and Sonification of Data Center Expansion in the United States. (from US hub)
    • 15:45 / 09:45 The Interdisciplinary Landscape of Sonification at ICAD: A Literature Review. Jorge Boehringer, Shelly Knotts, Daniel Ratliff, Lucy Whalley, Chris Harrison and Paul Vickers (from ES hub)
    • 16:00 / 10:00 Agent Ecosystems for Interactive Perceptualization in Data Exploration. Fabian Hommel and Thomas Hermann (from DE hub)
    • 16:15 / 10:15 Trajectory Data Exploration as a Prototype for the Multimodal Agent Ecosystems Framework. Fabian Hommel and Thomas Hermann (from DE hub)
    • 16:30 / 10:30 Toward AI-Driven Sonification Design: A Geometric Probing Playground for Planetary Link Lines. Lu-Chin Chang, Kelly Snook, Michael Ertzinger and Bruce N.Walker (from DE hub)
  • 16:45 / 10:45 Coffee Break
  • 17:00 / 11:00 Workshops (in parallel, cross-hub)
  • 19:00 / 13:00 Getting to the banquet
  • 19:30 / 13:30 Banquet
  • 21:30 / 15:30 End of day EU / Workshops in Troy

Friday, July 31

  • 14:00 / 08:00 Paper Session 5
    • 14:00 / 08:00 Evaluation of Audio Quality and Control in Image-Based Procedural Sonification Models. Dimitris Menexopoulos and Joshua Reiss (from ES hub)
    • 14:15 / 08:15 Real-Time Object-Aware Sensory Substitution using FM Synthesis and Mobile LIDAR. Calvin McCormack and Marina Bosi (from US hub)
    • 14:30 / 08:30 Through Truth Wind Blows. Triple Instruments as Ecological, Embodied and Collective Sonification Practice. Florian Dombois (from DE hub)
    • 14:45 / 08:45 Compose with the SDGs: A Creative Sonification Tool for Sustainable Development Goal Data Engagement. Tong Yu and Maurizio Berta (from ES hub)
    • 15:00 / 09:00 A Cognitive Immersive Audiovisual System for Perceptualizing Representative and Symbolic Data and Fostering Wellbeing. Jonas Braasch, Marcus Welch, Albert Chang and Misha Volf (from US hub)
  • 15:15 / 09:15 Coffee Break
  • 15:30 / 09:30 Lightning Talks
    • 15:30 / 09:30 Designing for Presence: An Assistive Audio-Haptic VR Framework for Visually Impaired Gamers. Cesar Portillo (from ES hub)
    • 15:35 / 09:35 AI-Assisted Development of a Real-Time Audio Synthesis Framework in Unity. Matti Gröhn (from DE hub)
    • 15:40 / 09:40 The Data Sonification Toolkit: Centralizing Resources to Support the Sonification Community. Auralee Walmer (from US hub)
    • 15:45 / 09:45 Regulating Driver Sadness Through Real-time Sonification of Driving Behavior. Ziming Fang, Dayna Rohmann and Myounghoon Jeon (from US hub)
    • 15:50 / 09:50 NEXO: Image-Driven Sonification of the Spanish Counter-Cultural Generation, 1960–1982. Burak Korkmaz Schwichow (from ES hub)
    • 15:55 / 09:55 Between Mapping and Fabulation: Environmental Sonification Under Constitutive Opacity. Burak Korkmaz Schwichow (from ES hub)
    • 16:00 / 10:00 Listening to Glucose: a Parametric Musical Sonification System for Accessible Continuous Glucose Monitoring. Andre Hoth (from US hub)
    • 16:05 / 10:05 MOBI-lyze: a Sonification System for Type-1 Diabetes Management. Mike Frengel, Pedro Cruz, Nathanael Lee and Xinzichen Li (from ES hub)
    • 16:10 / 10:10 Auditory Display Effects for General Vision Substitution. David Dewhurst (from DE hub)
  • 16:15 / 10:15 Open Mic Session, Award Ceremony, Farewell
  • 17:15 / 11:15 City / Forest Walk