Proceedings of Interacting with Sound Workshop: Exploring Context-Aware, Local and Social Audio Applications

In this workshop, we explored novel applications, services, tools, and systems that take advantage of the audio channel on mobile devices to feed users with a flow of information. The current generation of mobile applications focuses almost entirely on visual or haptic interactions. The effectiveness of these interaction modes may be severely impaired depending on the activity and the environment of mobile users as well as the limited visual real-estate on small devices. The audio channel does not have these limitations, yet very few applications fully exploit sound interactions beyond simple alerts, music, turn-by-turn directions and SMS audio feeds.