Invited Workshop: Sonic Tilt Competition

Sonic Tilt Competition

Submissions:

Alexandre D’Hooge – paper
Andrea Strata – paper
Jatin Agarwala & Pratyaksh Gautam – paper
Julien Bohnsack – paper
Justin Niestroj – paper
Katharina Groß-Vogt & Carmen Jenny Rieder – paper
Piet Kuchenbecker – paper
Rainer Bollhorst – paper
Stephen Barrass – paper
Stephen Barrass – paper
Stephen Barrass – paper
Tim Ziemer – paper

Tiltification

Tiltification is a spirit level app for mobile phones utilizing psychoacoustic sonification to enable users level their phones for the sake of leveling furniture or taking perfectly horizontal photos. With over 20,000 downloads this app really reached the masses.

But the sound is … terrible! At least for the majority of people who never got in contact with sonification before.

If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact Tim Ziemer.

Can you do it better? This is your chance:

Sonic Tilt Competition

1. Download and install Sonic Tilt, our open-source version of Tiltification.

2. Kick out our nasty sound and replace it with your own sonification design.

3. Compile the app, document how your sonification works and

4. Hand it in for the Sonic Tilt Competition @ICAD2023 using the Overleaf LaTeX Template or the LaTeX Template!

Except for Pure Data, no programming skills are necessary! Are you an artists, sound designer, researcher, student, engineer, or a creative person from any other field? Then you are welcome to participate in the competition for the best sonification design.

How to Participate

For attendees that are joining remotely, please use the following information:
https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/63457945241?pwd=dG1QMkhuOUFOSmhYakZVR2JRNThnQT09

Meeting-ID: 634 5794 5241
Passcode: 31678881

Just follow our written instruction manual, and/or our video tutorial to set everything up. For questions and troubleshoot, please contact Tim Ziemer.

Your sound design approach may be musical, comical, psychoacoustical, based on soundscapes, animal sounds, the human voice or … you name it! Your focus may lie on accessibility, readiness, learnability, entertainment, precision, enjoyment, … or any suitable compromise.

Please hand in your compiled app together with a short paper that includes your own app name, an explanation of your concept, a documentation of your sonification implementation, and ideally a link to demo videos and/or the description and results of a user study or any other evaluation of your sonification, and a reference to our papers on Tiltification (https://doi.org/10.21785/icad2021.025 and https://doi.org/10.21785/icad2022.003). An exemplary short paper can be found under http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08249.

For ICAD2023, please prepare a short (5 minutes) teaser/demonstration of your app.

An expert jury will test the apps and select the winning app that seems most promising to reach the masses; not only audio enthusiasts and sonification experts. The jury will be announced soon. All submitted documentations will be published as an article collection, but not as scientific, peer-reviewed papers.

In the spirit of the ICAD2023: Sonification for the Masses! The winning sonification design will be released in the Google Play Store, advertised through our channels, and naturally: You will be credited!

Important Dates

– The deadline for submitting the app and the documentation is 12th May 2023

– The presentation of your apps and the declaration of the winner will take place @ICAD2023 online, and in Norrköping, Sweden.

– If you only plan to participate in the Sonic Tilt competition (not the ICAD conference) no participation fees will be charged, but you can only participate in the presentations of all submitted Sonic Tilt apps

What Requirements should your Sonification Design fulfill?

Your sonification design should receive an x– and a y-angle to control a sonification that guides the user towards the (x = 0, y = 0) coordinate. This coordinate is reached, when the smartphone is leveled. Your version of Tiltification may be:

– easy to learn and understand

– super-precise

– engaging and fun to use

– pleasant to listen to

– …

Picture of phone on table.
Tiltification should help you level a table.

Cartoon of a caravan being leveled.
Tiltification should help you set up your caravan.

Phone resting on image frame as someone hangs it.
Tiltification should help you level a painting

Picture taken on phone that is crooked.
Tiltification should help you take a perfectly horizontal picture

A thorough explanation of Tiltification can be found in our YouTube Playlist. Use Sonic Tilt to build and run Tiltification using your own sonification design. For further questions please refer to Tim Ziemer.

The Sonic-Tilt Jury

The winning app will be elected by the Sonic-Tilt jury:

Areti Andreopoulou: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Katie Wolf: MeasuringU, USA

Matti Gröhn: Glue, Finland

Mike Winters: Microsoft, USA

Rajiv Ratn Shah: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Takanori Komatsu: Meiji University, Japan

The Sonic-Tilt competition is endoresed by the International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD). The jury members represent members of the auditory display community. They do not function as representatives of the ICAD board or officials.

Spread the Word

To reach as many sonification enthusiasts as possible, please advertise for the Sonic Tilt Competition on your website, through mailing lists, and your social media channels using the hashtag #sonictilt