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Title:          Advanced Audio Interfaces

Speaker:        Dr Stephen Barrass
		    Advanced Audio Interfaces
		    CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra
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Date:           Tuesday 27 April 2004 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO Conference Room,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.


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Abstract

The goals of the Advanced Audio Interfaces research stream in the CSIRO =
ICT Centre were to=20

	* develop world leading expertise and technologies in Advanced Audio =
Interfaces right here in Australia. =20
	* give Australian companies a competitive advantage by fast-tracking =
uptake of Advanced Auditory Interfaces expertise and technologies =20
	* generate an international perception of Australia as a unique niche =
centre for Advanced Auditory Interfaces expertise and technologies. =20

In this talk I will describe our strategy and efforts to achieve these =
goals through collaborations with information-intensive and high-tech =
SMEs in Australia working in areas such as sports and athletics, =
computer gaming, financial analysis, and neuroscience, contributions to =
CSIRO cross-divisional workshops on Flexible Electronics and Robotics, =
participation in academic networks, committees and conferences, and the =
production of the World Premiere Concert of Sonifications at the Sydney =
Opera House.=20

I will follow these descriptions with indications of progress towards =
the goals that include a rise from 5% to 35% in Australian content =
accepted for the Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory =
Display between 2003 and 2004, the almost all Australian organising =
committee for the International Conference on Auditory Display in 2004, =
and a 50% rate of Australian submissions for the World Premiere Concert =
of Sonifications.


Short resume

Stephen Barrass was awarded the first Australian Ph.D. in the field of =
sonification in 1997, and holds one of only a handful of doctorates on =
this topic in the world. He has been a nominated member of the Board of =
the International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD) since 1997. He =
was an invited speaker for International Conference on Auditory Display =
in Boston 2003, and is invited by the French Acoustic Society to speak =
at the Second Symposium on Sound Design in Paris 2004. He currently =
leads the CSIRO ICT Centre Advanced Audio Interfaces area of Emerging =
Science. He is the organising chair for the Tenth International =
Conference on Auditory Display in Sydney in 2004 www.icad.org/icad2004. =
He is the Creative Producer of the Listening to the Mind Listening =
Concert to be held at the Sydney Opera House on the evening of 8 July =
2004 www.sydneyoperahouse/studio.


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