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Exploring Sonic Interaction with Artefacts in Everyday Contexts*
Hands-on workshop on 23 June 2008 at IRCAM (Paris, France).

Organizers: Karmen Franinovic, Lalya Gaye, Frauke Behrendt
Workshop website: http://sonicinteraction.wordpress.com/

*Deadline* for call for expressions of interest: 06 June 2008

Part of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display, 24-27 June
2008

This workshop introduces participants to the use of creative interaction
design methods when exploring the design of sonic interactions with
computational artefacts. Specifically, focus will be on physical
interactions that rely on continuous sonic feedback. Participants will
generate future scenarios and concepts for such interactions, and everyday
sounding objects in context will be taken as a starting point. By taking
part in the workshop activities, participants will get an embodied
understanding of the challenges of designing for meaningful and engaging
physical interaction with computational sonic artefacts. Methods employed in
the workshop will thus be good complements to the cognition or
technology-based approaches to designing sounding objects that are
mainstream within the ICAD community.

This one day, hands-on workshop will be divided in fours parts: warm-up
exercises, creative idea generation, concept exploration through
bodystorming and final presentation and discussion. The workshop is aimed at
an ICAD audience, but welcomes a wide range of participants with various
backgrounds such as artists, designers, musicians, programmers, cultural and
media studies scholars, etc. No previous technical knowledge or design
experience is required. The workshop will give participants the opportunity
to explore key aspects of tangible interaction and continuous sonic
feedback, all in an activity-based way: the fact that the workshop consists
of low-tech small group exercises and interaction-focused creative
activities instead of paper presentations or technology tutorials, invites
participants to have an active role and to engage all senses in the
exploration of this type of situated sonic interaction. The focus is taken
away from technology itself and turned instead towards the situated
activities of using technology.

If you would like to participate in this workshop, please e-mail an
expression of interest to sonicinteraction at googlemail dot com by 6 June
2008, as places are limited. Your expression of interest should explain in a
few sentences why you are interested in participating in the workshop and
include a short biography. The submission should not excess one A4 page.
Please state if you are a member of SID or are applying for a Short Term
Scientific Mission
(http://www.cost-sid.org/wiki/STSMCall3<http://www.cost-sid.org/wiki/STSMCall3%29>
).

DATES
* Deadline for expression of interest: 6 June 2008*
Notification of acceptance: 10 June 2008
Workshop: 23 June 2008

CONTACT AND INFORMATION
sonicinteraction at googlemail dot com
http://sonicinteraction.wordpress.com/
http://icad08.ircam.fr/site/



-- 
Karmen Franinovic

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich
Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts ICS
http://ics.zhdk.ch/e/institute/franinovic.html
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach CH-8031 Zürich
Tel. +41(0)4344 66426


Zero-Th Association, Montreal / Pula
http://www.zero-th.org
Tel +1 514 967 1649
Fax +1 415 520 0193



-- 
Karmen Franinovic

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich
Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts ICS
http://ics.zhdk.ch/e/institute/franinovic.html
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach CH-8031 Zürich
Tel. +41(0)4344 66426


Zero-Th Association, Montreal / Pula
http://www.zero-th.org
Tel +1 514 967 1649
Fax +1 415 520 0193