Techniques and Applications of Augmented Reality Audio

Dear Colleagues,

Augmented reality audio (ARA) is a rapidly growing area of research and development. ARA technologies have now been adopted in many fields, such as accessibility, games, education, cultural heritage, navigation, healthcare, music, and entertainment.

ARA aims to provide users with immersive and interactive experiences by enhancing the real world with virtual information without isolating them from their environment. The legacy ARA practices focus mostly on a static mix of pseudo-acoustic environments and on passive modes of user participation. New techniques in terms of auditory perception and multimodal interaction are needed for the realization of more realistic and complex ARA scenarios and applications.

In this context, this Special Issue aims to introduce potential recent developments in ARA techniques and applications, thus providing insights into the field’s future directions of research and development.

Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Techniques for ARA mixing;
• ARA Psychoacoustics;
• ARA spatialization and perception;
• ARA applications;
• Interactive ARA;
• Tracking techniques and systems for ARA environments;
• Acoustic synthesis for sound event representation;
• Augmented auditory interfaces;
• Augmented audio-only games;
• Wearable ARA technology;
• Artificial/Creative intelligence and ARA;
• Interactive storytelling for ARA environments;
• ARA assistive technologies.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Floros
Dr. Emmanouel Rovithis
Dr. Nikolaos Moustakas
Guest Editors

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