1. WG4 Meeting Jyväskylä 2008-09-16: Minutes
    1. Attendees:
    2. Absent WG4 delegates:
    3. T0: Approval of the Agenda and Minutes of previous WG4 meeting (Berlin, …
    4. T1: Discussion with invited professional Sami Ronkainen (Nokia) [15']
    5. T2: Report of Activities of WG4 members in 2008 [15']
    6. T3: Organization of Activities in 2008/09 [40']
    7. T4: Involvement of industries [10']
    8. T5: Review past TODOs [10']
    9. T6: Nomination/Election for WG4 ambassadors [30']
    10. T7: Publications/Book [10']
    11. T8: Web Site and Mailing Lists [10']
    12. T9: Any other business [10']
    1. Working Group 4: Sonification
      1. Participants
      2. Ambassadors
      3. Events
    1. COST SID WG4 Meetings
      1. Upcoming Meetings
      2. Previous Meetings
        1. WG 4 meeting and workshop: Berlin, Germany, June, 2009
        2. WG 4 meeting: Jyväskylä, Finland, September, 2008
        3. WG 4 meeting: April 24th, 2008 Berlin
        4. Training school on Biomedical Data Sonification, Feb 20-22, 2008 …
        5. WG 4 meeting: October 22, 2007 Paris
        6. WG 4 meeting: August 2nd, 2007 Glasgow
  1. SID WG4/Sonification: Projects
    1. Project: AcouMotion/Blindminton
    2. Project: Growing Neural Gas Sonification (GNGS)
  1. SID WG4/Sonification: Publications
    1. Paper: …
  1. SID WG4/Sonification: Exhibitions

WG4 Meeting Jyväskylä 2008-09-16: Minutes

Minutes of the WG4 meeting 20080916 Jyväskylä

The 4rd WG meeting of COST IC0601 SID took place 2008-09-16 in Hotel Rantasipi Laajavuori, Jyväskylä, hosted by Antti Pirhonen, the University of Jyväskylä, and the HAID'08 conference.

Attendees:

  • Thomas Hermann (WG4 chair, MC)
  • Roderick Murray-Smith (MC)
  • John Williamson (WG4)
  • Sami Ronkainen (WG4)
  • Eoin Brazil (MC, WG4)
  • Nicolas Misdariis (WG4)
  • Yon Visell (MC, WG4)

Absent WG4 delegates:

  • Matthias Rath (WG4)
  • Stephen Barrass (WG4)

T0: Approval of the Agenda and Minutes of previous WG4 meeting (Berlin, 2008-04-24) [10']

Agenda and Minutes were approved unanimously.

T1: Discussion with invited professional Sami Ronkainen (Nokia) [15']

Introduction of Sami Ronkainen from NOKIA: He spoke about his history with Nokia including first working on the sound design for ring-tones in the 6190. He is currently in the Maemo software group and has designed all the sounds for the Nokia series of Internet Tablets. His role has changed slightly as he is now moving towards a design role rather than a creation role. He spoke briefly about how Nokia was considering usability, combinations of sounds, and on expanding existing sound use such as improving keypad tones to be more informative than just a single tone. Sonification on the mobile phone was also discussed as the mobile is now part of a larger cloud of always connected computing with push notifications and location awareness. Information such as geo-tagged areas with large numbers of pictures from friends within a social network could be sonified (sonic trails). Hearing about your friends from around the world using sonification is another possibility.

The N Series and the branding aspects of Nokia was mentioned. This was super-ceded by James Bull talk at the MC who discussed this area in greater depth. Nokia was noted as turning more attention to the design of mechanical components which was something which was formerly overlooked or given a low priority.

Thomas raised a question about AppStore? equivalents and Sami introduced how Beta and Alpha labs work within Nokia as channels for software distribution. MOSH was also mentioned as another means of distribution. (applications as widgets). This was related to the idea of using these channels for the distribution of example sonification applications to a wide audience.

List of summarized aspects/questions where sound plays a role:

  • where to use sound in the UI (mobile devices)
  • ring tones, interaction tones
  • sound and haptics
  • trade-off disturbing-function
  • how input is interpretated
  • future: phone representing info from rest of the world
  • broadband connection, always-connected
  • location awareness (popular places)
  • hearing the world around you
  • navigation
  • function vs aesthetics/emotion/branding
  • minimal sonifications

We talked about a competition on sonification on mobile phones. Rod suggests to focus on encouraging people to submit examples. ICAD could be a possible event to establish such a competition. As part of the examples role, a SID YouTube? channel was suggested and could contain video such as the Schoogle App. Applications on NOKIA phones could be put on betalabs. Sami mentions the sportstracker system.

T2: Report of Activities of WG4 members in 2008 [15']

WG members have given a range of talks in industry

T3: Organization of Activities in 2008/09 [40']

*a. Research Retreat [30'] The research retreat was discussed, a number of destinations were suggested and it was agreed that the members would investigate them further and reply via email. The topic of sonification and programming mobile devices was suggested as one area of this research retreat. Four candidate locations were mentioned:

  • Ireland: Barberstone Castle close to Dublin (Rod)
  • Limerick (Eoin)
  • Dolomites (University of Verona) (tip from Federico Fontana)
  • Rigi (close to Zürich, next to Lake Lucern) (Yon) As suited time, May-June 2009 is envisaged.

*b. Short-Term Scientific Missions [10'] The following STSMs with tight connection to WG4 will take place over the following months:

  • Matthias Rath -> IRCAM 2008/11
  • Jan Schachter -> Yon/ CIM 2008/11
  • Eoin Brazil -> IRCAM (Nicolas) 2009/03

Other WG4 STSMs need to be checked.

T4: Involvement of industries [10']

We listed the companies that we have currently contact with:

  • NOKIA
  • T-Labs/Telecom
  • France Telecom
  • Acoustic Branding / Patrick Langeslag

T5: Review past TODOs [10']

We skipped this review and delegated it as tasks to the corresponding ambassadors.

T6: Nomination/Election for WG4 ambassadors [30']

We have nominated candidates for the role of WG4 ambassadors as follows:

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY -> Yon Visell
  • EVALUATION-> Nicolas Misdariis
  • EXAMPLES -> John Williamson + Matthias Rath
  • WEB -> Eoin Brazil

Nominees have accepted their position.

T7: Publications/Book [10']

Thomas updated WG4 members about the status of the SID book project and the plans to contribute a hands-on chapter. Eoin supports this idea.

T8: Web Site and Mailing Lists [10']

We agreed that we would like to have a mailing list for obviously private discussions. Eoin will create a yahoo group for WG4.

T9: Any other business [10']

The discussion continued informally in the nearby sauna.