International Community for Auditory Display

SONIC INTERACTION DESIGN
Interactive Sound in Everyday Life

Position Paper Deadline 7 June 2009

An alarm clock that you cannot hear, but still wakes you up. A shower
curtain that sings along with you. Chewing gum that allows you to catch
sounds that surround you and chew them into a new remixed soundscape.
An umbrella that creates your personal acoustic shield. A pair of
gloves that can catch the sounds and mould them like clay. What will
our interactive future sound like? What do you think the sonic world
should or will become? What are you making or imagining that can be a
part of this world?

Sonic Interaction Design is an interdisciplinary area of research
and practice that explores ways in which sound can be used to convey
information, meaning, and aesthetic and emotional qualities in
interactive contexts. Recent COST ITC SID Action acts as a platform for
exploration of different SID topics in the areas of design, interactive
art, perception, cognition, and emotion as well as information
exploration through interactive sound. These are each supported by the
research and development of the new interactive technologies. The
overall goal of this research is to propose and to enable new
functional and aesthetic roles that interactive sound may play in the
everyday experiences with artifacts, services, or environments.

A Sonic Interaction Design (SID) special session will take place at
SMC 2009. You (artists, designers, engineers, scientists etc.) are
invited to propose preliminary ideas about the future of interactive
sound in everyday life. These ideas can be sonic, theoretical,
practical, technical, scientific, etc.. The only restriction is that
they have to be original and inspiring. No implementation, proofs,
results nor evaluations will be required. Just great, inspirational
ideas. These proposals will be evaluated on the basis of originality,
forward-thinking and potential to generate interesting and
controversial discussions. Individual contributions to special sessions
will be published online, and reports of special sessions will be
considered for publication after the conference, either in a booklet or
as research articles in a special issue of the Computer Music Journal.

FORMAT
The 1-page position paper (only restriction on the
format is that the content must fit on a single side of an A4 sheet)
should be sent as an attachment (.pdf format) via email to karmen.franinovic@zhdk.ch,
the mail subject must be "Special Session Sonic Interaction Design".
Papers are to be submitted by June 8th. The review process will take
about 2 weeks. Confirmation of receipt and the decision of acceptance
will be sent by email.

More info at http://smc2009.smcnetwork.org/programme/special-sessions/sid.html

Supported by: COST Action Sonic Interaction Design http://www.cost-sid.org/