Foundations in Sound Design for Embedded Media

Michael Filimowicz (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University and co-editor of The Soundtrack journal. He develops new forms of general purpose multimodal and audiovisual display technology, exploring novel product lines across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions, control rooms, telepresence and simulation-based training. He has published across disciplines in journals such as Organised Sound, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Leonardo, Sound Effects, Parsons Journal for Information Mapping and Semiotica. His art has been exhibited internationally at venues such as SIGGRAPH, Re-New, Design Shanghai, ARTECH, Les Instants Vidéo, IDEAS, Kinsey Institute, and Art Currents, and published in monographs such as Spotlight: 20 Years of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Reframing Photography and Infinite Instances. His personal website is http://filimowi.cz.

"This excellent book offers an introduction into the world of sound and interaction. Its chapters cover a wide range of subjects from Auditory Displays, Toys and Image Sonification. It is an invaluable text for students, researchers and artists who want to know more about the emerging field of audio interaction, and one that should definitely sit on the shelf of anyone who works in the world of design and sound." -- Dr Alan Chamberlain, Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham"Foundations in Sound Design for Embedded Media reverberates with valuable insight for today's practitioners. This volume brings together technological and methodological know-how, aesthetic sensitivity, and an understanding of how we listen and shows how these apply to the eclectic array of application areas embedded media now find themselves supporting; I am confident this book will spend more time on my desk than in my bookcase for quite some time to come." -- Paul Vickers, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computational Perceptualisation, Northumbria University.

• 1 Sonic Interaction with Physical Computing - Mark Nazemi2 The Electronics of Microphones and Loudspeakers - Jesse Seay3 New Interfaces and Musical Robots: New Musical Input and Output Devices - Jim Murphy4 Sketching Sonic Interactions - Stefano Delle Monache, Davide Rocchesso5 Bringing Sound to Interaction Design - Challenges, Opportunities, Inspirations - Daniel Hug, Simon Pfaff6 Auditory Display in Workplace Environments - Michael Iber7 Incorporating brand identity in the design of auditory displays: The case of Toyota Motor Europe - Elif Özcan , René van Egmond , Alexandre Gentner , Carole Favart8 Introduction to Sonification - Ivica Ico Bukvic9 Image Sonification – a practitioner’s account - David Stout10 Sound and Wearables - Johannes Birringer, Michele Danjoux11 Smart Musical Instruments: Key Concepts and Do It Yourself Tutorial - Luca Turchet, Mathieu Barthet12 Text-to-Speech Synthesis - Esther Klabbers13 Sound and UX Design - Michael L. Austin14 Toys & Playful Devices: a case study - Kristin Carlson, Greg Corness, Prophecy Sun15 The Sonic Internet of Things: Sound Design for Smart Objects - Vincent Meelberg 16 On the importance of listening - Antti Ikonen