Conference Program

• The conference and worship will be hosted at Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus (directions)
  • Workshops: Room:02/05 (Level 2)
  • Paper presentations: Lindsay Stuart Lecture Theatre (Level 2)
  • Paper QA / Poster / Demo sessions: Main Entrance Hall
  • Installations: Rooms 01/06, 01/09 and 01/10 (Level 1, see Installation page)
  • Prayer Room: Room 04/32 (Level 4, old part of the building)
  • Lunch: River Suite (Level 1, old part of the building)
• Concert: Glassroom, Merchiston campus (see Concert page)
• The gala dinner will be hosted at The Caves (directions). Transport from the conference Craiglockhart Campus to The Caves is provided. The pickup time is 6:30 pm. Please, note that the bus does not make any stops; if you wish to stop at the hotel or go through a different route you will have to make your own arrangements.

Paper session 1 - Music

Wednesday 30th August, 11 am
Session chair, Rod Selfridge

• Shabbar O.  and Van Nort D., Instrumental Agency and the Co-Production of Sound: From South Asian Instruments to Interactive Systems 
• Hopkins T.  et al., Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance
• McIntosh T. et al., Affective Conditional Modifiers in Adaptive Video Game Music
• Lindström H. et al., Inner City in the Listener's Auditory Bubble: Altering the Listener's Perception of the Inner City through the Intervention of Composed Soundscapes
• Sales C. et al., An Interactive Tool for Exploring Score-Aligned Performances: Opportunities for Enhanced Music Engagement
• Bergsland A. and Sabharwal S. R., Examining the Correlation Between Dance and Electroacoustic Music Phrases: A Pilot Study

Paper Session 2 + Demo - Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

Wednesday 30th August, 2 pm
Session Chair, Stuart Cunningham

• Christensen J. et al., MMM Duet System: New accessible musical technology for people living with dementia
• Lukashevich, H. et al., How reliable are posterior class probabilities in automatic music classification?
• Shariat R. and Zhang J., An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Feature Selection and Ensemble Learning Techniques for Music Genre Classification
• Davanzo N., Kiroll: A Gaze-Based Instrument for Quadriplegic Musicians Based on the Context-Switching Paradigm

Paper session 3 - Sonification

Thursday 31st August, 9:30 am
Session Chair, John McGowan

• Skov K. F. et al., Tuning Shared Hospital Spaces: Sound Zones in Healthcare
• Geary, D.  et al., Using design dimensions to develop a multi-device audio experience through workshops and prototyping
• Di Maggio F. et al., An Interactive Modular System for Electrophysiological DMIs
• Larrieux E. and Roger M., Bridging the gap between Sound Art and Sonification
• Groß-Vogt K., Reflecting on qualitative and quantitative data to frame criteria for effective sonification design
• Seznec Y. et al., The Sound of the Future Home Workshop: Ideating Sonic Prototypes for Sustainable Energy Consumption
• Cunningham S. et al., Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction

Paper session 4 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Thursday 31st August, 2 pm
Session Chair, KC Collins

• Caspe F. S. et al., FM Tone Transfer with Envelope Learning
• Collins Kc and Johnston H., A Free Verbalization Method of Evaluating Sound Design: The Effectiveness of Artificially Intelligent Natural Language Processing Methods and Tools
• Bolt J. and Fazekas G., Supervised Contrastive Learning For Musical Onset Detection
• Tomczak M. and Hockman J., Onset Detection for String Instruments Using Bidirectional Temporal and Convolutional Recurrent Networks
• Yang Z. S. and Hockman J., A Plugin for Neural Audio Synthesis of Impact Sound Effects

Paper session 5 - Spatial Audio

Friday 1st September, 9:30 am
Session Chair, Emma Margetson

• Bourachot A. et al., Impact of an audio-haptic strap to augment immersion in VR video gaming: a pilot study
• Bouillot N. et al., Audiodice: an open hardware design of a distributed dodecahedron loudspeaker orchestra
• Deacon T. and Barthet M., Invoke: A Collaborative Virtual Reality Tool for Spatial Audio Production Using Voice-Based Trajectory Sketching
• Arterbury T. et. al., Rhythmic Accuracy of 3D Spatial Interaction for Digital Music
• Elliot A. and McGregor I., FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems
• Jacobsen R. M. et al., Barriers for Domestic Sound Zone Systems: Insights from a Four-Week Field Study
• Arevalo Arboleda J. C. and Villegas J., Study of auditory trajectories in virtual environments