International Conference on
Auditory Display 2000

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

CONFERENCE DATES - April 2-5, 2000

Program:

Sunday April 2, 2000
Registration
Optional Tutorials and Workshops

"MPEG-4 Structured Audio and AudioBIFS"
Introduction and applications to auditory display
by Eric D. Scheirer, Machine Listening Group, MIT Media Laboratory

"Audio in Virtual Environments"
An introduction to perceptual, design, and implementation issues
by Jarrell Pair and Russell Storms

Monday, April 3, 2000

8:00-9:00 AM, Registration
9:00-12:00 AM, Papers
1:00-2:00 PM, Demos/Posters
2:00-5:00 PM, Papers
5:30 PM Social/Reception
6:00-9:00 PM, Banquet

ALL in the GCATT Building

Monday Morning, 9:00 - 9:30
Welcome Session, Announcements

Monday Morning, 9:30 - 10:50
Paper Session: Audio in Assistive Technologies

9:30
Short Paper
Teaching Orientation and Mobility Skills to Blind Children
Using Computer Generated 3-D Sound Environments

Ken Loge, Aaron Cram, Dean Inman
kenl@ori.org
Keywords: 3D Sound, Blind Access, Education
9:50
Short Paper

WebSound: a Generic Web Sonification Tool, and its Application to an
Auditory Web Browser for Blind and Visually Impaired Users

Lori Stefano Petrucci, Eric Harth, Patrick Roth,
Andre' Assimacopoulos, Thierry Pun
Lori.Petrucci@cui.unige.ch
Audio + Haptics, 3D Sound, Earcons, Blind Access
10:10
Short Paper

Auditory WWW Search Tools
Rick Bodner, Alex Ferworn, Mark Chignell
rick@personification.com
Human Computer Interfaces, Blind Access, World Wide Web
10:30
Short Paper

An Auditory Display System for Aiding Interjoint Coordination
Luke Dubois, Claude Ghez, Thanassis Rikakis, Perry Cook
luke@woof.music.columbia.edu
Sonification, User Interfaces, Rehabilitation

Monday Morning, 11:00 - Noon
Paper Session: Technologies for Interfaces and Systems

11:00
Short Paper

Contact Interaction with Integrated Audio and Haptics
Derek DiFilippo, Dinesh K. Pai
difilip@cs.ubc.ca
User Interface, Haptics+Audio
11:20
Short Paper

Robotic Measurement and Modelling of Contact Sounds
Joshua Richmond, Dinesh Pai
jlrichmo@cs.ubc.ca
Robotics, Acoustic Measurement, Sonification
11:40
Short Paper

An Extensible Toolkit for Creating
Virtual Sonic Environments

Hesham Fouad/Jim Ballas
ballas@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Virtual Environments, Sound Server

Monday Afternoon, 1:00 - 2:00
Demo/Poster Session

Demonstration of Mobile Audio and Multiple Speaker Panning using VAS
Hesham Fouad and James A. Ballas
hesham@acm.org
Tools for Auditory Display Research
Timothy Tucker, David Mann, and Willard Wilson
ttucker@tdt.com
Title: The NAVE: Design and Implementation of a 3D
Audio System for a Low Cost Spatially Immersive Display

Jeff Wilson and Jarrell Pair
jwilson@cc.gatech.edu
Title: Auditory-Visual Cross-Modal Perception
Russell Storms
storms@airmics.gatech.edu
Sonification of Heart Rate Variability Data
Mark Ballora, Bruce Pennycook, and Leon Glass
ballora@music.mcgill.ca

Monday Afternoon, 2:00 - 3:00
Special Session, Panel or Keynote

Monday Afternoon, 3:00 - 5:00
Paper Session: Design, Spaces, and Games

3:00
Long Paper

Sleuth: An Audio Experience
Tom Drewes, Marybeth Gandy, Elizabeth Mynatt
drewes@cc.gatech.edu
Immersive Environments, Games, Design, User Interfaces
3:30
Long Paper

Abstract Sound Objects to Expand the Vocabulary of Sound
Design for Visual and Theatrical Media

Eric Somers
somers@sunydutchess.edu
Sound Design, Foley, Sonification
4:00
Short Paper

Guided by Voices: An Audio Augmented Reality System
Kent Lyons, Maribeth Gandy, Thad Starner
kent@cc.gatech.edu
Audio, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Wearable Computers
4:20
Short Paper

Hear&There: An Augmented Reality System of Linked Audio
Joseph Rozier, Karrie Karahalios, Judith Donath
kkarahal@media.mit.edu
Augmented Reality, Navigation, Links
4:40
Short Paper

Visiphone: Connecting Domestic Spaces with Audio
Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, Fernanda Vie'gas
judith@media.mit.edu
Human Computer Interfaces, Awareness

Monday Evening, 5:30 - 6:00, Cocktail 1/2 hour
6:00 - 9:00, Banquet, Keynote Speaker

Tuesday, April 4, 1000

8:00-9:00 AM, Registration
9:00-12:00 AM, Papers
1:00-2:00 PM, Demos/Posters
2:00-5:00 PM, Papers
5:00-7:00 PM, Dinner Break (on your own)
7:30 or 8 PM Percussion/Technology Concert

Tuesday Morning, 9:00 - 10:10
Paper Session: Sonification 1

9:00
Long Paper

Responsive Sonification of Well Logs
Stephen Barrass, Björn Zehner
stephen.barrass@cmis.csiro.au
Human Computer Interfaces, Sonification
9:30
Short Paper

Principal Curve Sonification
Thomas Hermann, P. Meinicke, H. Ritter
thermann@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Sonification, Principle Curves
9:50
Short Paper

Sonification of Particle Systems via deBroglie's Hypothesis
Bob Sturm
sturm@ccrma.stanford.edu
Sonification, Physics, deBroglie

Tuesday Morning, 10:20 - 12:00
Paper Session: Psychoacoustics, Perceptual Models, and Ability

10:20
Short Paper

Sonification and the Interaction of Perceptual
Dimensions: Can the Data Get Lost in the Map?

John Neuhoff, Greg Kramer, Joseph Wayand
jneuhoff@mediaone.net
Sonification, Stock Market Data, Perceptual Interaction
10:40
Short Paper

Psychophysical Scaling of Sonification Mappings
Bruce Walker, Gregory Kramer, David Lane
walkerb@rice.edu
Psychophysics, Auditory Display, Sonification Mapping
11:00
Short Paper

A Model for Interaction in Exploratory Sonification Displays
Sigurd Saue
saue@tele.ntnu.no
Sonification, Ecological, Human Computer Interfaces
11:20
Short Paper

Experiments in Computer-Assisted Annotation of Audio
George Tzanetakis, Perry Cook
gtzan@cs.princeton.edu
Information Retrieval, Segmentation, Audio thumbnailing, Annotation
11:40
Short Paper

Development of a Standard Test of Musical Ability for
Participants in Auditory Interface Testing

Alistair Edwards, Ben P. Challis, J. Hankinson, F. Pirie
Musical Ability, Human Computer Interface Testing

Tuesday Afternoon, 1:00 - 2:00
Demo/Poster Session

AudioLab Tour
Hosted by Tom Drewes
Overview of the AudioLab
Demos of previous work and work in progress by the students of the AudioLab.
Demo of "Sleuth." (see below)
Haptic Music: Non-Musicians Collaboratively Creating Music
Maribeth Gandy and Andrew Quay
maribeth@cc.gatech.edu
Sleuth: An Audio Experience
Thomas M. Drewes, Maribeth Gandy, and Elizabeth D. Mynatt
drewes@cc.gatech.edu
Spatial Auditory Displays for use within Attack Rotary Wing Aircraft
Russell Shilling, Tomasz Letowski, and Russell Storms
shilling@pcisys.net
Subjective testing of the performance of reverberation enhancement using virtual reality environments
Pontus Larsson, Mendel Kleiner, Daniel Västfjäll, Conny Olsson, Bengt-Inge Dalenbäck
pontus.larsson@ta.chalmers.se
Music Monitor: Dynamic Data Display
Quan T. Tran, Elizabeth Mynatt
quantt@cc.gatech.edu
Keywords: Ambient, peripheral, musical data display

Tuesday Afternoon, 2:00-3:50
Paper Session: 3D Sound and Immersive Environments

2:00
Long Paper

Learning Reverberation: Considerations for Spatial Auditory Displays
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
shinn@cns.bu.edu
Reverberation, 3D Sound Perception, Psychoacoustics
2:30
Short Paper

A Tool for Volumetric Visualization and Sonification of
Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF's)

Cory Cheng, Greg Wakefield
coreyc@eecs.umich.edu
HRTF, Spatial Sound, Visualization, Sonification
2:50
Short Paper

Active Sensory Tuning for Immersive Spatialized Audio
Greg Wakefield, Paul Runkle, Anastasia Yendiki
ghw@eecs.umich.edu
HRTF, 3D Sound
3:10
Short Paper

A Case Study of Auditory Navigation in Virtual Acoustic Environments
Tapio Lokki, Matti Gröhn, Lauri Savioja, Tapio Takala
ktlokki@cc.hut.fi
Virtual Reality, Spatial Hearing, Auditory Navigation
3:30
Short Paper

A Software-Based System for Interactive Spatial Sound Synthesis
Elizabeth Wenzel, Joel Miller, Jonathan Abel
bwenzel@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Spatial Sound, Interactive Virtual Audio, Real-Time

Wednesday, April 5, 2000

8:00-9:00 AM, LATE Registration
9:00-10:45, Link with CHI??
10:50-12:00 AM, Papers
1:00-2:00 PM, Special Session
2:00-4:00 PM, Papers
4:00 Conference Ends

Wednesday Morning, 10:50-12:00
Paper Session: Sonification 2

10:50
Long Paper

Musical Program Auralisation: Empirical Studies
Paul Vickers, James Alty
p.vickers@livjm.ac.uk
Music, Auralization, Debugging, Pascal
11:20
Short Paper

Analysis of a Musical-Visual System for Evaluating
Protein Structural Alignments

Suresh Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Marc Hansen, Eric Charp
lodha@cse.ucsc.edu
Sonification, Music, DNA
11:40
Short Paper

A Sonification Enhanced Navigation Tool for History-Enriched
Information Spaces

Andreas Dieberger
adieber@sics.se
Social Navigation, Sonification

Wednesday Afternoon, 1:00 - 2:00
Special Session: Keynote or Panel

Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00 - 3:40
Paper Session: Earcons and Auditory Icons

2:00
Long Paper

The Effect of Earcons on Reaction Times and Error-Rates in a
Dual-Task vs. a Single-Task Experiment

M.P. Bussemakers, Paul M.C. Lemmens, Ab de Haan
bussemakers@nici.kun.nl
Earcon, Distractor, Categorical Perception
2:30
Short Paper

When it Sounds like a Duck and it Looks like a Dog:
Auditory icons vs. Earcons in Multimedia Environments

M.P. Bussemakers, Ab de Haan
bussemakers@nici.kun.nl
Auditory Icons, Earcons, Categorical Perception
2:50
Long Paper

Designing Non-Speech Sounds to Support Navigation in
Mobile Phone Menus

Gregory Leplatre, Stephen Brewster
gregory@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Telephony, Navigation, Sonification
3:20
Short Paper

Musical Phrase-Structured Audio Communication
John Hankinson, Alistair Edwards
John.Hankinson@cs.york.ac.uk
Music, Grammar, Earcon