The International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) is a forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. It is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses.


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

The theme of the joint conference is “Let’s Play Together”, intending to invite scholars, researchers, artists and practitioners for an interdisciplinary gathering to collaboratively explore sound and its social dimensions. 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”!


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New submission deadline: March 21, 2025
Author notification: April 23, 2025

All deadlines are anywhere on earth.

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CONTRIBUTIONS
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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)
- Sustainability and Auditory Display
- 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

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SUBMISSIONS
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Important dates:  https://amicad2025.dei.uc.pt/important-dates/
Contributions must be submitted here:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=amicad2025


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CATEGORIES, REQUIREMENTS, AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
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Submissions relevant to the Call for Contributions are accepted in any of the following categories (see https://amicad2025.dei.uc.pt/call-icad/ for details):
- Scientific / Empirical study.
- Position paper.
- Informative sonification.
- Artistic sonification / music / composition.
- Project architecture / presentation.


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://amicad2025.dei.uc.pt/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/icad2025_LATEXtemplate.zip
Word Template: https://amicad2025.dei.uc.pt/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/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 A1 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.


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The PC Chairs of ICAD 2025,
Pedro Martins, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Stephen Roddy, University College Cork, Ireland