IMPROVISING WITH SPACES by Pauline Oliveros - This paper explores qualitative changes that occur in voices and instruments in relationships with changing spaces ordinarily held in a stationary paradigm of performance practice, spatial transformations and the effect on sounds in multi-channel speaker systems. Digital technology allows one to compose and improvise with acoustical characteristics and change the apparent space during a musical performance. Sounds can move in space and space can morph and change affecting the sounds. Space is an integral part of sound. One cannot exist without the other. Varieties of sounds and spaces combine in symbiotic relationships that range from very limited to very powerful for the interweaving expressions of the music, architectures and audiences. [Keywords: Spatial Music, Surround Sound]

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Auditory Display [PDF] - Contents:

Keynote Address

1 Timbre, Auditory Display and Organizing Sound - Stephen McAdams

Binaural Technology for Auditory Display

2 Control of Perceived Room Size Using Simple Binaural Technology - Densil Cabrera
10 Perceived Naturalness of Speech Sounds Presented Using Personalized Versus Non-Personalized HRTFs - John Usher and William L. Martens
17 The Influence Of Presentation Speed and Spatial Location on Reaction Time to Auditory Displays - Agnieszka Roginska
24 Effect of Large System Latency of Virtual Auditory Display on Listener’s Head Movement in Sound Localization Task - Yôiti Suzuki, Satoshi Yairi and Yukio Iwaya
32 A Comparison of Head-Tracked and Vehicle-Tracked Virtual Audio Cues in an Aircraft Navigation Task - Douglas S. Brungart, Brian D. Simpson, Ronald C. Dallman, Griffin Romigh, Richard Yasky and John Raquet
38 Mitigation of Binaural Front-Back Confusions by Body Motion in Audio Augmented Reality - Nick Mariette
45 Nearfield Synthesis of Complex Sources With High-Order Ambisonics and Binaural Rendering - Dylan Menzies

The Role of Binaural Reproduction in Music, Film, and Radio-Play Productions

53 Spatial Audio Quality Evaluation: Comparing Transaural, Ambisonics and Stereo - Catherine Guastavino, Véronique Larcher, Guillaume Catusseau and Patrick Boussard
60 Cranial Transitions for Soprano Saxophone and Electronic Processing - Jonas Braasch
68 Improvising With Spaces - Pauline Oliveros

Poster Session 1

73 Simulation of Small Head-Movements on a Virtual Audio Display Using Headphone Playback and HRTF Synthesis - György Wersényi
79 Decomposition of the HRTF from a Sphere With Neck and Hair - Bradley E. Treeby, Roshun M. Paurobally and Jie Pan
85 Binaural for Popular Music: A Case of Study - Simone Fontana, Angelo Farina and Yves Grenier
91 Hue Music: Creating Timbral Soundscapes from Coloured Pictures - Dave Payling, Stella Mills and Tim Howle
98 User-Specific Audio Rendering and Steerable Sound for Distributed Virtual Environments - Mike Wozniewski, Zack Settel and Jeremy R. Cooperstock

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102 Beowulf: A Game Experience Built on Sound Effects - Mats Liljedahl, Nigel Papworth and Stefan Lindberg
107 Soundmarks in Spoken Route Guidance - Anssi Kainulainen, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen and Aleksi Melto
112 Sonification of Spatial Data - Tooba Nasir and Jonathan C. Roberts
120 Decruitment of the Perception of Changing Sound Intensity for Simulated Self-Motion - Daniel C. Zikovitz and Bill Kapralos

Auditory Warnings and Alerts: Best Practices and New Approaches

126 Integrating Auditory Warnings With Tactile Cues in Multimodal Displays for Challenging Environments - Ellen C. Haas
131 Auditory Alarm Design for NASA CEV Applications - Durand R. Begault, Martine Godfroy, Aniko Sandor and Kritina Holden
139 Doing Science on Auditory Display Design in the Cockpit: Merging Laboratory Rigor and the Aircraft Cockpit - Environment - Carol A. Simpson
143 Acoustic and Semantic Warning Parameters Impact Vehicle Crash Rates - Carryl L. Baldwin
146 Design of Natural Warning Sounds - Pernilla Ulfvengren
154 Sonification and Reliability: Implications for Signal Design - James P. Bliss and Randall D. Spain
160 Perception of Urgency and Spatialization of Auditory Alarms - Anne Guillaume, Marie Rivenez, Guillaume Andéol and Lionel Pellieux

Analysis and Synthesis of Environmental Sounds

167 Din of an “Iquity”: Analysis and Synthesis of Environmental Sounds - Perry R. Cook
173 Acoustical and Conceptual Information for the Perception of Animate and Inanimate Sound Sources - Bruno L. Giordano, Stephen McAdams and John McDonnell
181 Synthesis of Environmental Sounds in Interactive Multimodal Systems - Federico Avanzini
189 High-Resolution Analysis and Resynthesis of Environmental Impact Sounds - L.-M. Reissell and Dinesh K. Pai
197 Physical Audio for Virtual Environments, Phya in Review - Dylan Menzies
203 Audio-Haptic Physically Based Simulation and Perception of Contact Textures - Stefania Serafin, Hans P. Kjaer, Christian Taylor and Federico Avanzini
208 Concepts of Perceptual Significance for Composition and Reproduction of Explorable Surround Sound Fields - Peter Lennox and Tony Myatt

Poster Session 2

213 Using 3D Sound to Track One of Two Non-Vocal Alarms - Marie Rivenez, Guillaume Andéol, Lionel Pellieux, Christelle Delor and Anne Guillaume

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221 Peripheral Notification With Customized Embedded Audio Cues - Ralf Jung and Tim Schwartz
229 Creating a Virtual Suikinkutsu - Scott Brewer
234 How Well Do We Identify Product Sounds? - Elif Özcan and René van Egmond
242 A Mouse With Ears Explores Maps - Mark Horowitz
247 Speed Sonic Across the Span: A Platform Audio Game - Michael Oren, Chris Harding and Terri L. Bonebright
252 Sonifying the London Underground Real-Time Disruption Map - Louise Valgerður Nickerson, Tony Stockman and Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
258 Sonification of Spin Models: Listening to Phase Transitions in the Ising and Potts Model - Katharina Vogt, Willibald Plessas, Alberto de Campo, Christopher Frauenberger and Gerhard Eckel

Effective Auditory Displays, Listening Abilities, and Learning

266 Listener, Task, and Auditory Graph: Toward a Conceptual Model of Auditory Graph Comprehension - Michael A. Nees and Bruce N. Walker
274 Learning Rates for Auditory Menus Enhanced With Spearcons Versus Earcons - Dianne K. Palladino and Bruce N. Walker
280 Localization in Multiple Source Environments: Localizing the Missing Source - Brian D. Simpson, Douglas S. Brungart, Robert H. Gilkey, Nandini Iyer and James T. Hamil
285 Evaluation of Spatial Presentation in Sonification for Identifying Concurrent Audio Streams - Hong Jun Song, Kirsty Beilharz and Densil Cabrera
293 Perceiving the Relationship Between Discrete and Continuous Data: A Comparison of Sonified Data Display - Formats
Carina M. McCormick and John H. Flowers
299 Designing Auditory Graph Overviews: An Examination of Discrete vs. Continuous Sound and the Influence of Presentation Speed - Lila Harrar and Tony Stockman
306 Detection and Discrimination of Approaching and Receding Puretones - Mark A. Ericson

Design and Evaluation

312 An Experimental Evaluation of the Influence of Auditory Cues on Perceived Visual Orders in Depth - Delphine Devallez, Davide Rocchesso and Federico Fontana
319 Semantics of Sounds and Images: Can They Be Paralleled? - Antti Pirhonen
326 Investigating Ambient Auditory Information Systems - Eoin Brazil and Mikael Fernström
334 Sound Embodied: Explorations of Sonic Interaction Design for Everyday Objects in a Workshop Setting - Karmen Franinovi´c, Daniel Hug and Yon Visell
342 Toward a Data Sonification Design Space Map - Alberto de Campo
348 Developing Sounds for a Multimodal Interface: Conveying Spatial Information to Visually Impaired Web Users - Emma Murphy, Ravi Kuber, Philip Strain, Graham McAllister and Wai Yu

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356 ‘PsySound3’: Software for Acoustical and Psychoacoustical Analysis of Sound Recordings - Densil Cabrera, Sam Ferguson and Emery Schubert
364 Establishing Key Dimensions for Reifying Soundfields and Soundscapes from Auditory Professionals - Iain McGregor, Alison Crerar, David Benyon and Grégory Leplâtre

Poster Session 3

372 Auditory Velocity Information in a Balancing Task - Matthias Rath
380 Influence of Interaction on Perceived Quality in Audiovisual Applications: Evaluation of Cross-Modal Influence - Ulrich Reiter and Mandy Weitzel
386 Individual Differences and the Field of Auditory Display: Past Research, a Present Study, and an Agenda for the Future - Lisa M. Mauney and Bruce N. Walker
391 Auditory Progress Bars: Preference, Performance, and Aesthetics - S. Camille Peres, Philip Kortum and Kurt Stallmann
396 The Three ‘R’s: Real Students in Real Time Doing Real Work Learning Calculus - Steven M. Hetzler and Robert M. Tardiff
403 Investigating Sound Intensity Gradients as Feedback for Embodied Learning - Milena Droumeva, Suzanne de Castell and Ron Wakkary
411 Auditory External Representations: Exploring and Evaluating the Design and Learnability of an Auditory UML Diagram - Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns and Tony Stockman
419 Memory for Auditory Icons and Earcons With Localization Cues - Terri L. Bonebright and Michael A. Nees

Sonification 1

423 Modeling and Continuous Sonification of Affordances for Gesture-Based Interfaces - Yon Visell and Jeremy R. Cooperstock
430 Expressive Musical Warning Signals - Johan Fagerlönn
437 Audio Reminders in the Home Environment - Marilyn Rose McGee-Lennon, Maria Wolters and Tony McBryan
445 Sonipy: The Design of an Extendable Software Framework for Sonification Research and Auditory Display - David Worrall, Michael Bylstra, Stephen Barrass and Roger Dean
453 Systematic Usability Inspection Approach for Sonification Applications - Ag Asri Ag Ibrahim and Andy Hunt
461 Relevance-Based Interactive Optimization of Sonification - Thomas Hermann, Kerstin Bunte and Helge Ritter
468 Speech and Non-Speech Audio: Navigational Information and Cognitive Load - Anna Rouben and Loren Terveen
476 Organized Data for Organized Sound: Space Filling Curves in Sonification - Florian Grond

Sonification 2

483 Sonification of Sound: Tools for Teaching Acoustics and Audio - Densil Cabrera and Sam Ferguson

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491 Multi-Channel Sonification of Human EEG - Gerold Baier, Thomas Hermann and Ulrich Stephani
497 Real-Time Sonification of Movement for an Immersive Stroke Rehabilitation Environment - Isaac Wallis, Todd Ingalls, Thanassis Rikakis, Loren Olsen, Yinpeng Chen, Weiwei Xu and Hari Sundaram

Poster Session 4

504 Analysing Time Series Data - Christopher Frauenberger, Alberto de Campo and Gerhard Eckel
509 Sonification Sandbox Reconstruction: Software Standard for Auditory Graphs - Benjamin K. Davison and Bruce N. Walker
513 Pattern Design in the Context Space: A Methodological Framework for Auditory Display Design - Christopher Frauenberger, Tony Stockman and Marie-Luce Bourguet
519 Interacting With Sonifications: An Evaluation - Sandra Pauletto and Andy Hunt
526 The Design of Interactive Audio Soccer - Tony Stockman, Neil Rajgor, Oussama Metatla and Lila Harrar
530 Increasing the Dimensionality of a Geographic Information System (GIS) Using Auditory Display
Ryan MacVeigh and R. Daniel Jacobson
536 New Sonification Tools for EEG Data Screening and Monitoring - Alberto de Campo, Robert Hoeldrich, Gerhard Eckel and Annette Wallisch

543 Index of Authors