Sonic Interaction Design Training School on Biomedical Data Sonification
COST IC0601 SID Training School
organised by Thomas Hermann
February 20-22, 2008
Bielefeld University, Germany
http://www.cost-sid.org/SIDTrainingSchool200802

This Training School is organized with the goal to promote interdisciplinary education and research in the fields of Sonification, Datamining, Sound Computing and Sonic Interaction Design. The training school is dedicated to giving young researchers an opportunity to showcase their ideas to the SID community as a whole, learn new skills, and work with more senior people in the field who will function as mentors. Some of the participants may have only one or perhaps no faculty member at their home institution who specialises in Sonification or Interaction Design. The training school facilitates their interacting with other researchers at all levels who share their passion for the field and to reflect through the activities, information sessions, and discussions during the training school on the process and lessons of research and of life in academia.

This is the first Training School of the EU COST Action IC0601 (Sonic Interaction Design, SID). It will be a short 3-days training program with both lectures and the opportunity for practical experiences of biomedical data using prepared sonification modules in SuperCollider.

Lecturers

• Thomas Hermann (Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany)
• Gerold Baier (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, and Autonomous University of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico)
• Jean-Julien Filatriau (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium)
• Till Bovermann (Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany)
• Eoin Brazil (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Academic Program

• Lectures on Data Mining techniques for multivariate time series
• Listening in Medicine - A historical review
• Biomedical Data Sonifications - A review
• An introduction of Sonification Techniques with a focus on their utility for Applications in Biomedicine
• Poster presentations by the participating students during coffee breaks
• Application Focus: Human Electroencephalography
• Sonification Techniques for Human EEG data
• Online demonstration of EEG sonification
• Sonification with SuperCollider - A practical course
• Auditory Icons for Notification (Medical Devices and Sounds in the Operation Theatre)
• Practical "hands-on" sessions for the participating students in collaboration with the teachers of the Training School
• A panel discussion with experts from diverse scientific fields (n.n.)
• Towards Arts: A historical overview of artistic applications driven by biological signals
• A demonstration of systems designed within the eNTERFACE07 project with several kinds of hardware units
• Lab-Tour to Research Labs at the Faculty of Technology

The lectures are designed to be of interest to any graduate student or researcher in the field of Sound Computing, Sonification/Datamining?. The focus for this initial training school is Sonification and in particular biomedical applications of auditory displays; this includes basics on sound synthesis, programming languages and protocols, sonification techniques, and applications at the interface to biosignals ranging from scientific applications to artistic applications.

A session will be reserved for all participating students (if wished) to give a short presentation of their current research. A poster session will be organized to foster scientific cross-fertilization.

Program Schedule

not yet available

Application

A maximum of 25 students will be admitted to the school. The candidates will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee and the application should include the following information, best in one pdf file:

• A brief curriculum vitae (optionally including a list of publications)
• A brief description of your research focus
• Your motivation for taking part (short abs)
• Your preferred modules: since we plan to adjust the program to better meet the participants' preferences (e.g. form: practical work sessions / lectures / discussions , or on specific topics)

Candidates are asked to send their application to  Thomas Hermann as soon as possible (the weekly evaluation procedure to start 2007-12-10). Decisions will be taken on incoming applications once a week, so that a maximum of time remains for attendees to book early and prepare for the training school. Notification of acceptance will be given as soon as possible, typically within a week. The application period ends when the course is complete - this will be announced here.

There is no registration fee for the Summer School. The COST Action IC0601 - Sonic Interaction Design allows to organize the Training school and sponsors participation. For students coming from outside the Bielefeld region a fixed grant of 500 EUR will be assigned.

Traveling

Participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation.

The Training School will take place at  Bielefeld University, in the Department of Computer Science. ( google map)

 Bielefeld can be reached by airplane (the nearest airports are located in Paderborn, Hannover and Duesseldorf.). Further information how to get to Bielefeld can be found  here. The  Deutsche Bahn provides train schedules.

Accomodation

A list of hotels can be found  here (contact info can be found on the map) Please book as soon as possible - this week is very busy due to a fair close to Bielefeld

• Brenner Hotel Diekmann (single rooms: night=52 EUR/night (please indicate participation to the SID Training School at Uni Bielefeld to get this price), (low-price, a bit outside, but good tram connection)
• Mövenpick Hotel (single room: night approx 77 EUR/night, at the central station)
• Comfort Garni Hotel Stadt Bremen (night approx 65 EUR/night, very central in Bielefeld)