From: Alex Lane Igoudin Subject: EDUC: Stanford Workshop on Audio and Haptics for Virtual Reality Date: Sat, 11 Jan 97 20:00:15 -0800 ************ STANFORD UNIVERSITY CCRMA WORKSHOPS 1997 *************** >> Audio and Haptic Components of Virtual Reality Design -------------------------------------------- June 16 - June 27, 1997 Individual fee: $800, Affiliate fee: $1000, Corporate Non-Affiliate fee: $1200 Two weeks instruction and laboratory. Limited to 15 participants. Instructors: Sile O'Modhrain, Craig Sapp Guest Lecturers: Perry R. Cook (Princeton Univ.), Brent Gillespie (Northwestern Univ.), Dan Levitin (Interval Research), Bill Verplank (Interval Research), Beth Wenzel (NASA) This course examines how our minds model the physical world. Familiarity with this relationship between the exogenous and endogenous worlds is crucial for the design of efficient and effective virtual environments. We will focus on the senses of sound and touch and how these senses relate to physically measurable and reproducible quantities. Relevant topics from the fields of psychophysics, acoustics, cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, and physiology will be covered. In particular, the salience of various auditory and haptic phenomena to the perception and performance of music will be examined. Morning lectures will introduce important concepts from the fields listed above and will also feature talks by eminent researchers and entrepreneurs working in the fields of psychoacoustics and haptics. Afternoon labs will provide practical experience in psychophysical experiment design and execution. Various audio and haptic effects and illusions will be demonstrated and applied to virtual environments. Participants will design their own perceptual experiments and conduct pilot studies of their experiments. Haptic computer interfaces as well as sound synthesis tools will be made available for experiment designs. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------ Housing costs are not included in the course fee. Campus housing is available for the summer workshops through the Stanford University Conference Office. Information on lodgings in Stanford/Palo Alto vicinity will be sent to the spring workshop participants. No academic credit is offered for participation in the workshops. FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION ON OTHER CCRMA WORKSHOPS: ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Digital Signal Processing for Audio * Interactive Composition and Performance with Computers * Algorithmic Composition with Computers in LISP Environment * Computer-Assisted Research in Music Scholarship * April'97 Three-day Intensive DSP Workshop PLEASE CONTACT: ------------------------- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/ E-mail: aledin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU Phone: (415) 723-4971 Fax: (415) 723-8468 Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Workshops Department of Music / Stanford University / Stanford, CA 94305-8180, USA. **********************************************************************