Submission Information

Papers

Monday, 08 November 2010 10:31

Papers are oral presentations of a substantial contribution to the field. Full paper submissions should be 6-8 pages, including images and references, and should be accompanied by relevant sound files. Submissions will be subject to blind review by an international committee of peers in the auditory display community. One of the authors must present the paper at the conference for it to appear in the proceedings. Papers must not exceed 8 pages and must comply with ICAD's formatting requirements. Links to the document format templates for this year's conference in LaTeX and Microsoft Word are provided below.

Please ensure that papers are double-blinded or double-masked by removing any reference that may point to any of the authors of the paper.

Authors are strongly encouraged to incorporate auditory display into the presentation of their papers by including examples of the sounds used in their work and/or by sonifying their results. Just as it would be unusual for presentations of papers on graphics not to include visual artefacts, it should be the norm that ICAD paper presentations employ sound in addition to the voice of the speaker.

Please submit papers (and other written submissions) for review as PDFs with author information removed.

Templates for papers can be downloaded here: LaTeX, Word

For uploading submissions you have to click REGISTRATION and proceed as indicated. Choose "author" if you want submit a paper or "reader" if you want to join the conference without submitting a paper.

Posters

Monday, 08 November 2010 10:35

Posters are primarily a forum for discussion of work-in-progress. Submissions should be up to 5 pages, including images and references, and should be accompanied by any relevant sound files. Like papers, posters will be subject to blind review. An international panel will review submissions. Posters will be presented on a single A0 size sheet during the poster session. One of the authors must present the poster at the conference for it to appear in the proceedings.

Please ensure that posters are double-blinded or double-masked by removing any reference that may point to any of the authors of the poster.

We strongly encourage everyone who is presenting a poster to consider also giving a practical demonstration of their work. In your poster submission you should provide brief details of the demonstration that you will give. Descriptions of demonstrations should include details of the equipment and space you will use. We will assume that you will provide your own equipment to perform the demonstration, though if you believe we may be able to assist in providing standard equipment to help with this please give details in your submission.

Sonifications/Compositions/Aural Submissions/Demos

Monday, 08 November 2010 10:36

Though originally the terms 'sonification' and 'data sonification' referred to the systematic auditory display of data for informational purposes, the terms have recently begun to be used by the music composition and sound-art communities to refer to works produced primarily for aesthetic or artistic purposes. In recognition of this, and the fact that a sharp distinction between the two cannot always be made, similarily to last year, a Sonifications and Compositions submission category has been created for ICAD 2011 that provides participants with an opportunity to present and publish extended instances of auditory work that make a contribution to, and/or exemplify, important informational and listening practices in the field of auditory display.

Submissions of auditory material for this category should be one to ten minutes in length and must be accompanied by a one-to-four page abstract that outlines the goals, informational context, and techniques used in the work (the paper-submission template should be used for this purpose). Submissions will be evaluated on the merits of these criteria by a committee of peers in the auditory display community, and must be identified as either a "sonification" or a "composition" for reviewing purposes. Please email the Chair of the category you select if you feel the other category is also applicable.

Accepted pieces will be published in audio form (along with the corresponding abstract) in the conference proceedings and will be presented as part of the ICAD 2011 program. A stereo loudspeaker array will be available for participants who wish to use two-channel for their work (if there is extent need for a 5.1 system, we will try to make it happen). Because of the resource requirements, the need to rehearse spatial rendering etc, composers and practitioners contemplating submissions in this category are thus encouraged to contact one of the relevant conference chairpersons (i.e., the Sonifications Chair or Demonstrations/Compositions Chair) to discuss their proposals and ideas well in advance of the conference. Finally, one of the authors must be present to provide a contextual description of the work on the night (or day, if necessary) of its performance.

In addition to demonstrations of work presented in papers and posters, we are seeking to encourage submissions of demonstrations and performances of work that doesn't fit into the usual categories of submissions. If you are a developer of sound installations, or use sound in other innovative ways as the primary medium for displaying information, we encourage you to submit details of a demonstration of your work under this category to the conference. Submitted descriptions of demonstrations should explain the nature of your demonstration, and provide details of the equipment and space you will use. We will assume that you will provide your own equipment, though if you believe we may be able to assist in providing any standard items, please provide details in your submission.

Workshops/Tutorials/Panels

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:36

We plan a half-day or full-day workshop with the blind community in Budapest. We will try to organize blind and visually impaired people to join us, devide them into groups and share our experiences regarding computer use, virtual audio displays, sound design, perception etc. You can present your research, especially if it is some kind of machine, tool, software application - anything dealing with sound to help easing blind people’s life. If there will be more options, we can rotate the groups between „stations”. Please send your comments, ideas and application/proposals for this workshop-day directly to György (George) Wersényi by e-mail to the following address with subject „Blind Workshop Day”: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Special issue

Monday, 17 January 2011 22:05

A special issue of the Journal of the AES will come out after the ICAD'2011 conference, probably about 2-3 months after. It will be considered by the reviewers whether submissions to ICAD'2011 are possible candidates for the special issue.

Online registration here

Registration Fee

Tuesday, 08 February 2011 17:04

Registration fee includes two coffee breaks and lunch each day as well as the participation on the congress banquet.
Please note that at least one author must be registered and present the paper/poster in order to get the paper published on the proceedings CD.
Students have to fax their copy of student ID card to the office and show it at the registration desk on-site. Fax: +36-1-7834781.

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