SoniHED 2022: Conference on the Sonification of Health and Environmental Data Stockholm, Sweden, October 27-28, 2022

The Sound for Energy Project (https://soundforenergy.net) is delighted to announce the Second Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED 2022), which will take place online and in person for those in Stockholm at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on 27-28 October 2022.

See Conference webpage: https://soundforenergy.net/sonihed2022 

The first SoniHED Conference was organized and chaired in 2014 by Sandra Pauletto and colleagues from the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/seminars/sonihed/). It brought together experts in the fields of sonification, sound design, health sciences and environmental science to evaluate and discuss novel sonic ways to engage with data from these fields.

Sonification, and more generally sonic interaction design, are concerned with displaying data in sonic form so that listeners (experts and/or non-experts) can perceive and engage with the structures and the properties of the data and their meaning.

This year we especially, but not exclusively, welcome research addressing the theme: Sound and Energy. Energy is fundamental to life. Our bodies need energy to keep moving and be healthy. We can use our physical energy to replace environmentally damaging energy sources, for example, by cycling or walking to work instead of driving. We obviously consume a lot of energy at home and at work – using computers, electricity, heating, hot water and more – and often are unaware of what we could do to reduce inefficient behaviors. In this context, sound can provide new engaging ways to understand how we produce and use energy, helping us keeping up good habits, while reducing unnecessary energy consumption.

The Conference will include guest speakers from related fields, peer-reviewed paper presentations and posters, and more.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a short abstract in English by Friday 19 Monday 29 August 2022.

The abstract should include the following information:

• Name of the author(s) with email addresses and affiliation
• Title of the presentation/poster
• Body of the abstract

Please submit the full article (max. 8 pages for presentation, max. 4 pages for poster) by Friday 26 Monday 5 September 2022.

Notification of Acceptance will take place on Friday 16 September 2022.

The camera-ready article of accepted papers will be due on Friday 7 October 2022.

Final papers will be published in the online Proceedings of the Conference.

List of Topics

This conference welcomes submissions for oral or poster presentations focused on the sonification and sound design of health and/or environmental data.

Topics can include:

• sonification and sound design case studies in the fields of health and environmental science
• sonification and sound design case studies in the field of energy consumption
• sonification and sound design case studies in the fields of health and physical energy
• interactive sonification and sonic interaction design applications
• sonification applications for mobile technology and/or the web
• sonification for public engagement
• sonification for research
• aesthetic issues in sonification
• novel sonification strategies
• practical systems and working prototypes
• evaluation of sonification related to health and environmental data

Committees

Program Committee

• Sandra Pauletto (Conference Chair)
• Rod Selfridge (Paper Chair)
• Stefano Delle Monache (Paper Chair)

Organizing committee

• Yann Seznec
• Vincenzo Madaghiele

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sonihed2022@gmail.com