Call for Papers

The conference theme seeks to create a space for researchers to exchange experiences in a creative environment, featuring keynote presentations, panel discussions, paper presentations, artistic performances, workshops and interactive demos. To stimulate new directions for sound research through cross-disciplinary collaborations, let’s all “play together”!

The 30th ICAD 2025 Conference will be co-located with Audio Mostly 2025 at Coimbra, Portugal, from June 30 to July 4 (please see https://amicad2025.dei.uc.pt)

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
Author notification: April 23, 2025

Note: All deadlines are anywhere on earth.

Contributions

Contributions for ICAD 2025 may cover one or more of the following topics (non-exhaustive list):

Sonification Design Approaches (methodologies, paradigms, theories, and taxonomies)
Case Studies of Real-world Applications
Cultural Studies in Sonification
Philosophical Perspectives on Sonification (ontological, aesthetic, and epistemological issues)
User Studies of Sonification Experiences
Sonification-inspired Music and Performing Arts
Speculative Sonification Designs and Prototypes
Psychoacoustics, Perception and Cognition Studies
Accessibility, Inclusive Design and Assistive Technologies
Peripheral and Ambient Sonification
Interactive Sonification
Sonic Interaction Design
Auditory Process Monitoring
Sonification Application Domains (e.g. Health and Environmental Data (soniHED), Internet of Things, Big Data & Cybersecurity, Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles)
Sonification in Entertainment (Games, Performances)
Immersive and Spatial Audio
Computational Modeling and AI Approaches to Sonification
Sensing Devices and Platforms for Auditory Display & Sonification
Human Factors, Ergonomics and Usability of Auditory Interfaces

Submissions

Contributions must be submitted here:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=amicad2025

Categories, Requirements, and Assessment Criteria

Submissions relevant to the Call for Contributions are accepted in any of the following categories:

Scientific / Empirical study: Empirical study submissions are intended to present the results of experimental work, whether objective or subjective, numerical or perceptual. Submissions are evaluated concerning the novelty of the work, scholarly/scientific quality, suitability to the ICAD community domains, and importance of the results. Submissions should include a state-of-the-art review which places the work and its results in the perspective of previous studies. Enough detail should be provided concerning experimental protocols so that the study could be repeated. Modern standards for statistical analysis should be followed (e.g. mean and variances in plots, boxplot or histogram distributions of data, ANOVA with corresponding p and F values provided, adequate number of test subjects).
Position paper: Position Papers are those that address generic topics; those of general concern to the ICAD community or a specific conference theme. Frequently, such papers will challenge their audience to consider new ways of doing things or new conceptual paradigms. It is expected that such papers shall contain arguments and counterarguments supported by substantial evidence and/or documentation such as literature reviews of related prior research. Examples of Position Papers include those that discuss sonification taxonomies; models of listening; cross-modal comparisons of conceptual or psycho-perpetual issues such as the nature of representation; philosophical and cultural issues such as the role of sonification in data analysis and the public understanding of science.
Informative sonification: This submission category is intended to provide a framework for the presentation of informative sonification works. Submissions in this category require both a written element and a multimedia element for the review committee to judge the work.
Artistic sonification / music / composition: This submission category is intended to provide a framework for the presentation of artistic works involving sonification. Submissions in this category require both a written element and a multimedia element for the review committee to judge the work.
Project architecture / presentation: This submission category is for the presentation of a system architecture or a long-term project before the production of any results. This type of submission is considered useful in providing both an extensive state-of-the-art review and a thorough overview of the goals and directions of the project including justifications for any choices made in the conception of the project. This category is well-suited to larger complex projects for which a sufficient presentation is poorly suited to the traditional length of a full-paper introduction.

Peer review and proceedings

All submissions will be fully peer-reviewed. The review process is double-blind. Please submit completely anonymized drafts. Please do not include any identifying information, and refrain from citing authors’ prior work in anything other than the third person.

Acceptance is determined solely on the merits of the submitted work. Accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings and will be archived accordingly.

Length and Formatting

Authors can choose the most appropriate length for their contribution amongst two formats:

Full papers (6-8 pages, typically for oral in-person presentation) should provide a substantial contribution to the research field;
Extended abstracts (2-4 pages, typically for poster or demo presentation) should report novel work in progress or research that is best communicated in an interactive format.

Page limits include all figures, tables, appendices, and references. The length of the abstract should be 150-200 words.

Extended Abstracts may be archived in a separate supplement to the conference proceedings and will not be attributed to individual DOI references.

LaTeX Template: https://icad2025.icad.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/icad2025_LATEXtemplate.zip

Word Template: https://icad2025.icad.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/icad2025_wordTemplate.doc

Presentation format

In the review process, there is no distinction between whether the presentation mode will be oral or a poster. Although authors may indicate a preferred method of presentation, attribution of accepted submissions to either oral or poster presentation is determined by the Program Committee.

You can hand in a paper with an accompanying demo that is presented in addition to a talk or poster. In this case, you have to submit the required supplementary data as described in the Call for Demos.

Poster format

Posters are made to A0 size (vertical), prepared by the presenter in advance, and brought to the conference.

Guidelines and recommendations for making an effective academic poster are easy to find; for example, here is an online guide from the University of York that we find useful:
https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/posters

If your contribution is strongly auditory, please consider bringing a laptop and a pair of headphones to make your interactions with conference attendees during the poster presentation session even more rewarding. Tables for the laptops will be available in the poster area as needed.

Audio, Video, and Other Supplementary Materials

We encourage authors to attach additional supplementary materials such as audio/video examples, data sets, or measurements. For review, you can include anonymized links to cloud services or other online sites.

For the camera-ready version of an accepted manuscript, any such temporary links must be replaced by persistent links with handle/DOI or equal. We recommend the free service zenodo.org which allows you to host arbitrary data with DOI.

Attendance

Please note that at least one of the paper authors has to register and attend the conference for the accepted paper to be presented and published in the proceedings.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to the Program Chairs Pedro Martins and Prithvi Ravi Kantan at info.amicad2025@dei.uc.pt if you have any questions.