Call for Papers
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the conference Audio Mostly 2007 - 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound in Ilmenau, Germany on September 27-28, 2007 hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT.
Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue - holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, dramatize and enthrall. However, in computer-based environments, for example games, nowadays the interaction abilities through and with sound are still underrepresented. The Audio Mostly Conference provides a venue to explore and promote this untapped potential of audio by bringing together audio experts, content creators, interaction designers, and behavioral researchers. Our area of interest covers new sound applications that demand or allow for some kind of interactive response from their listener, particularly in scenarios where screens and keyboards are unavailable, unsuitable or disturbing. This area implies cognitive research and psychology, as well as technological innovations in audio analysis, processing and rendering. The aim is to both describe and push the boundaries of sound-based interaction in various domains, such as gaming, serious gaming, education, entertainment, safety and healthcare.
Areas of Interest (including but not limited to):
- Games designed around audio and sound
- Interactivity through sound and speech
- Semantic speech, music, sound analysis
- Music recommendations and user feedback
- Semantic audio processing
- Cognition of sound and music
- New auditory user interfaces
- Sound design for games
- Spatial audio rendering
- Interactive composing & authoring of music
- Audio in teaching
- Sound in mobile applications
- New developments for audio broadcasting, podcasting and audiobooks
- Future uses of sound
Download call for papers (.pdf)
Furthermore, we plan to focus a special paper session on the area of children‘s media, an area that is of special interest to our region here in Thuringia
(see http://invest-in-thueringen.org/fileadmin/www/pdfs/
EN/publications/flyer-media.pdf).
Thus, any submissions dedicated to the questions of audio interaction in media applications for kids or adolescents, such as audio & learning, music education or games for children, etc. are in particular welcome.
For more information, please visit our website http://www.audiomostly.com or contact us at info@audiomostly.com
