Current research

The ultimate goal of sonification is to transfer information effectively to listeners. While there is a large amount of multidisciplinary investigation in the field of psychoacoustic, psychology, cognition and human computer interaction, sonification design still lacks empirical evidence on which to base design decisions . My study focuses , in particular, on evaluating spatial presentation in sonification so as to enhance pattern identification when two audio streams are played simultaneously. Hence it aims to develop design decisions that benefit from effective information representation. The sounds were created (in Max/MSP) for binaural reproduction using non-individual head-related transfer functions (SPAT library).

Tools used: Max/MSP, MATLAB, Adobe Audition

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Education

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY AUSTRALIA123456781191234 2004.7 - PRESENT567 8 93 0 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND PLANNING, key centre of design computing and cognition. PhD proposal: The Role of Spatialization Enhancing Differentiation, Supervisor: Dr. Kirsty Beilharz

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG AUSTRALIA 1341156782002.7 - 2003.7 90123456789 FACULTY OF INFORMATICS. Master of Internet Technology (with distinction). Project I: Automatic Speaker Verification, Supervisor: Prof. Alfred Mertins; Project II: Virtual Cafe Modelling - an Interaction in Virtual World, Supervisor: Dr. David Stirling.

ZHENZHOU UNIVERSITY CHINA 12343434345678910111996.9 - 2000.6567 93 0 1 27 SCHOOL OF INFORMATION ENGINEERING. Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology. Thesis: Database inquiry based on web, Supervisor: Prof. Guichong Li of

Publications

JOURNAL PAPER

• Song, H.J. and Beilharz, K (2007). "Concurrent Auditory Stream Discrimination in Auditory Graphing'' in International Journal of Computers, Issue 3, vol.3 no.1, pp.79-87

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Song, H.J. and Beilharz, K. "Development of Sonification Strategies Facilitating Auditory Display", Pervasive Workshop, Accepted, in press

• Song, H.J. and Beilharz, K. "Spatialization and Timbre for Effective Auditory Graphing", .8th International Conference on Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications, Vancouver, Canada, 2007, pp 18-26

• Song, H.J., Beilharz, K. and Cabrera, D. "Evaluation of Spatial Presentation in Sonification for Identifying Concurrent Audio Streams", 13th International Conference of Auditory Display (ICAD), Montréal, Canada, 2007, pp 285-292

• Beilharz, K., Ferguson, S., Song, H.J. & Cabrera, D. " An Interactive Approach for Teaching Information Sonification ", 12th International Conference of Auditory Display (ICAD), London, 2006, pp 164–171

• Cabrera, D., Ferguson, S., Beilharz, K. & Song, H.J. " Using Psychoacoustical Models for Auditory Display ", 12th International Conference of Auditory Display (ICAD), London, 2006, pp113–120

• Song, H.J. and Beilharz, K. " The role of spatialized sonification enhancing discriminating auditory display ", 11th conference of Computer Aided Architecture Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA'06), 2006, Accepted Poster

• Song, H.J. and Beilharz, K. " Sonification Guidelines Facilitating an Intuitive and Rapid Understanding/Interpretation ", 12th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (IEEE Press), Beijing , China , 2006, Accepted Poster

• Song, H.J. and Beilharz, K. " Time-base Sonification for Information Representation ", 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., 2005, pp 376- 380

Awards

• Commercialisation Training Scheme (CTS) Scholarship, University of Sydney, 2007

• Best Paper Award in session: Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing in World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics , Orlando, USA, 2005

• Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, 2005

• Annual General Scholarship of Zhengzhou University, School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 1997-1999