Doing Research in Sound Design

Michael Filimowicz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University. He has a background in computer mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art and creative writing. His research develops new multimodal display technologies, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions, telepresence and simulations.

• Volume Introduction Michael Filimowicz1. Sound Design ThinkingVincent Meelberg2. Meaning-making and Embodied Cognition in Sound Design Research Stephen Roddy and Brian Bridges3. Mapping Space and Time in the Soundtrack: Embodied Cognition and the Soundtrack’s Spatiotemporal Contract Adam Melvin and Brian Bridges4. Measuring People’s Cognitive and Emotional Response: Psychophysiological Methods to Study Sound DesignEmma Rodero5. Watching and Evaluating Simultaneously: an Approach to Measure the Expressive Power of Sound Design in a Moving PictureMaximilian Kock 6. Using a Semiotic Approach to the Practice of Sound DesignLeo Murray 7. Audi(o) Branding and Object Sounds in an Audio-visual Setting – the Case of the CarNicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær 8. Designing and Reporting Research on Sound Design and Music for Health - Methods and Frameworks for ImpactKjetil Falkenberg Hansen and Emma Frid9. Practice-led and Interdisciplinary Research: Investigating Affective Sound DesignStuart Cunningham and Jon Weinel10. Research-creation as a Generative Approach to Sound DesignProphecy Sun, Kate Hennessey, Kristin Carlson11. The Soundscape Approach: New Opportunities in Sound Design PracticeIan Thompson12. Developing a Sound Design Creative A.i. MethodologyMiles Thorogood 13. Sonification Research: Overview and Emerging TopicsSandra Pauletto, Roberto Bresin14. Sound Design in the Context of SonificationVisda Goudarzi15. Creating and Evaluating Aesthetics in SonificationNuria Bonet 16. Revealing Industry Culture: a Cultural Ethnographic Approach to Post-production Sound Vanessa Ament17. Sound Design as Viewed by Sound Designers: a Questionnaire About People, Practice, and DefinitionsLaura Zattra, Nicolas Donin, David Fierro, Frank Pecquet, and Nicolis Misdarlis18. Qualitative, Pragmatic, and Hermeneutic Inquiries in Electroacoustic Compositions: Selected Case StudiesMaria Kallionpää19. The Bold and the Beautiful Methods of Sound Experience Research: An Introduction to Mixing the Qualitative and Quantitative Study of the Subjective Experience of Sound and Music in Video GamesHans-Peter Gasselseder Index