Workshops

Workshop 1: What Zombies, Knights, and Wizards Can Teach us About Auditory Display via Audio Games

Brandon Biggs, Katie Wolf, Matti Gröhn

Duration: Half day

Abstract

Audio Games, games that are played completely using audio, have evolved a set of rigorously tested interfaces that can inform future sonification design. This workshop will provide a hands-on experience to a range of audio game interfaces and provide a forum to discuss the wider applicability of the observed interface techniques.

Objectives

1. To expose the community to different ways that audio is used in audio games. The organizers will present a 15 minute introduction of different types of audio games, followed by participants playing a different audio game every 30 minutes (ideally playing a total of 3-5 games).
2. To spark a discussion about effective audio interfaces. The last 30-45 minutes will be dedicated to group discussion about the interface techniques used in the games.

Relevance for ICAD attendees

Audio Games demonstrate an emergence of interactive parameter mapping sonifications that can optimally display geographical information and a large number of simultaneous data variables. The interfaces in Audio Games have been shaped and informally “tested” by the selection pressures of a demanding consumer market of nonvisual users and can serve as examples of potentially effective conventions that can inform future work in the auditory display research community.

Workshop 2: Evaluating Auditory Displays: Perspectives from Sonification and Other Domains

Brianna Tomlinson, Brittany Noah, Judy Edworthy, Thomas Hermann, David Worrall, Bruce Walker

Duration: Half day

Abstract

Through this workshop, we plan to foster discussion among those with different levels of experience with auditory displays and evaluation methods. This workshop will grow connections between a variety of auditory display researchers and will provide a basic introduction to evaluation methods for someone with little experience. We want to encourage those from other disciplines to attend. This will bring diversity in perspective to our workshop by allowing participants to discuss their own perspectives on evaluation methods.

We hope to engage those in a variety of areas: speech displays, model-based sonification, psychoacoustics, usability, performance, and enjoyment (aesthetics) to ensure broad discussion of possible evaluation techniques. Brief presentations highlighting methods used by invited guest speakers will introduce attendees to a range of methods to think about during breakout groups throughout the day. Breakout groups will discuss different methods which may or may not be currently used within the field. Throughout the day attendees will have the choice participate in different breakout groups that will each be focused on different types of evaluation, led by workshop organizers. Participants will be encouraged to move between groups throughout the day to learn about and discuss different evaluation methods. Notes from throughout the day will be made available publicly to be used as reference materials. This workshop will help encourage those who specialize in different types of evaluation to share their knowledge with the broader community, and will generate different types of methods which people use in their day-to-day auditory display work.

Objectives

1. Share community knowledge about different strategies and methods for evaluation.
2. Brainstorm additional methods and discuss how to integrate these methods into their own work.
3. Create a larger taxonomy of the different methods available for evaluating auditory displays and sonification

Relevance for ICAD attendees

This workshop will be relevant to auditory display designers, novices or experts in Sonification, those with evaluation experience (outside of sonification – but from any field!)

Workshop 3

Apologies, but this workshop has had to be withdrawn.

Workshop 4: Data “A Meta-Workshop in Audiovisualizing Data – Ben Fry style”

Kelly Snook and Margaret Schedel

Duration: full day

Abstract

Relevance for ICAD attendees

Workshop 5: Sonic Interactions in Highly Autonomous Vehicle Environments

{Myounghoon Jeon, Sangjin Ko, & Chihab Nadri} (Mind Music Machine Lab, Virginia Tech), {Dong Chul Park & Taekun Yun} (Sound Design Research Lab, Hyundai Motor Company).

Duration: Full day

Abstract

With the advance of autonomous vehicles, the scope and prevalence of in-vehicle technologies will dramatically expand, which will increase the design opportunity for better user experiences of drivers and passengers. Auditory displays and sonification have been used in the vehicle over the years, but most of them have focused only on basic information transmission, such as warning or alerts. The goal of our workshop is to discuss and explore the overall sonic interactions at a more advanced level in autonomous vehicle environments to offer better driver experience in rapidly changing vehicle environments. This workshop is expected to provide an opportunity for intermingling participants from diverse backgrounds, presenting conceptual sounds, discussing issues, and integrating ideas.

Objectives

This workshop has five specific goals: (1) Provide an organized thinking about the topic of how sonic interactions can be efficiently and effectively applied to the highly autonomous vehicle contexts; (2) Build and nurture a new community that bridges the auditory display community with the automotive user interface community; (3) Discuss and exchange within and across sub-communities; (4) Suggest promising directions for future transdisciplinary work; and (5) Yield both immediate and long-term community-, research-, and design-guidance products.

To this end, we will invite researchers and practitioners from all backgrounds, who are interested in auditory display and automotive user interface fields. In this discussion and forming directions, we will particularly focus on five themes that sound can contribute to in the autonomous vehicle environment – safety, usability, situation awareness, trust, and novel presence. Achieving these goals will provide an opportunity to move this integrated field forward and build a solid community that includes ICAD.

Relevance for ICAD attendees

This workshop will be of interest to those seeking to discover more about the role of auditory displays in vehicles.