Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference
Conference Proceeding
(2023)
Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195
Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its ...
Sonification of Exosolar System Accretion Discs
Conference Proceeding
Quinton, M., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2021)
Sonification of Exosolar System Accretion Discs. In The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2021)
This study investigated the design and evaluation of a sonification, created for an astronomer who studies exosolar accretion discs. User design methods were applied to sonify...
Sound Design
Book
McGregor, I. (2020)
Sound Design. (3rd
This book explores the underlying principles of sound design for linear and interactive media, and specifically how they apply to theatre, radio and film. The focus of the tex...
Designing Sound for Robots: An In-depth Guide to Great Robot Sound Design
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2019)
Designing Sound for Robots: An In-depth Guide to Great Robot Sound Design. [Blog]
From robotic lawnmowers and autonomous vacuum cleaners, to interactive toys and personal assistants, robots are becoming an ever-growing part of our personal and professional ...
Designing vehicle sounds
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2018)
Designing vehicle sounds. [Website]
Sound is intrinsically linked to vehicles, drivers use it to monitor their actions and vehicle mechanical condition. Pedestrians and other road users rely on sound to prevent ...
Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics
Conference Proceeding
McGowan, J., Leplatre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017)
Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics. In Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.67
What does music look like? Representation of sound has taken many forms over time, from sinusoidal wave patterns, through to random algorithm-based visualisations based on the...
Sound and the Internet of Things
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2017)
Sound and the Internet of Things. [Blog]
Sound has enormous potential to enhance how we experience and interact with the connected everyday devices and appliances that make up the Internet of Things.
Dr Iain McGrego...
Listening loudspeakers: a quieter and more intelligible world
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2017)
Listening loudspeakers: a quieter and more intelligible world. [Website]
Loudspeakers can now truly be described as ubiquitous, being part of many portable and fixed technologies. They are an important part of everyday life, providing both entertai...
To uncover the secrets of exoplanets, try listening to them
Digital Artefact
Quinton, M., Benyon, D., & McGregor, I. (2016)
To uncover the secrets of exoplanets, try listening to them. [Website]
From rainfall patterns to share price performance, the usual way to analyse any data that shows something changing over a period of time is to put it into a graphic. Making da...
Sonifying the solar system
Conference Proceeding
Quinton, M., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2016)
Sonifying the solar system. In The 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016), (28-35
Sound is potentially an effective way of analysing data and it is possible to simultaneously interpret layers of sounds and identify changes. Multiple attempts to use sound wi...