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Bio
Iason Svoronos-Kanavas is a Software Engineer in Audio @ JOYNEXT, and is set to be awarded a Master of Science by Research in Computer Science and Informatics from the Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL), School of Computing & Engineering, University of Huddersfield, UK, with only his thesis review pending. He has a background in sound technology (BSc, Ionian University, GR) and sonification, the process of mapping data onto non-speech sound for the purpose of enhancing perception and understanding.
His MSc research project, supervised by Prof. Hyunkook Lee, focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of a proposed Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) model. The evaluation specifically focuses on the impact of applying different frequency band modes (UN R138) to the model on perceived annoyance. Additionally, the project investigates the effects of audiovisual simulations in the evaluation of AVAS, comparing these with audio-only testing to assess differences in annoyance perception. The thesis will be published under the title: Exploring the Influence of Frequency Components in Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems for Electric Vehicles on Annoyance Perception. Read more.
- Email: Iason.SvoronosKanavas (at) gmail (dot) com
- GitHub
- ResearchGate
- Orcid
- C.V.
Employment
– JOYNEXT Software Engineer, Dresden, Germany, May 2024 - Now
– Public Address manual work (audio & lighting) for music concerts, e.g. Street Mode festival Thessaloniki, Greece, September - October 2022.
– Internship student at Linköping University, Division for Media and Information Technology, Norrköping, Sweden: Sonification for communication. March - July 2022.
– Internship student at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Austria: Sonification research. September - February 2022.
Publications
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Iason Svoronos-Kanavas, and Hyunkook Lee. 2023. SoniCross: Evaluating Annoyance in Sonifications for Electric Vehicles using Audio-Visual simulation. In AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio, Huddersfield, UK, 2023 August 23–25. Read more
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Marian Weger, Iason Svoronos-Kanavas, and Robert Höldrich. 2022. Schrödinger’s box: an artifact to study the limits of plausibility in auditory augmentations. In AudioMostly 2022 (AM ’22), September 6–9, 2022, St. Pölten, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. Read more
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Katharina Groß-Vogt, Iason Svoronos Kanavas, Marian Weger and Clemens Amon. 2022. The Augmented Floor - Assessing Auditory Augmentation. In AudioMostly 2022 (AM ’22), September 6–9, 2022, St. Pölten, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. Read more
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Svoronos - Kanavas, Iason, Agiomyrgianakis, Vasilis, & Rönnberg, Niklas. (2022, May 17). An exploratory use of audiovisual displays on oceanographic data. AVI 2022 Workshop on Audio-Visual Analytics (WAVA22), Frascati, Rome, Italy. Read more
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Agiomyrgianakis, Vasilis, Svoronos - Kanavas, Iason, Zannos, Iannis, & Diapoulis, Georgios. (2022, February 6). Synerg(e)ia: A Networked Collaborative Live coding environment. International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC), Valdivia, Chile. Read more
Scholarships, Funding and Awards
– PGR Conference Presentation Funding - University of Huddersfield, for Presenting at the AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio, Huddersfield, UK, 2023 August 23–25.
– Award of Excellence in Higher Education Graduates for acad. year 2021-2022, May 2023, State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), Greece
– Scholarship for Excellent Academic Performance in support of Postgraduate Research July 2022 – Funding: Synenosis, Greece
– Tuition Fee Waiver Scholarship for Postgraduate Research July 2022 – Funding: University of Huddersfield - School of Computing and Engineering
– Conference Participation & Attendance Grant - Advanced Visual Interfaces 2022 June 2022 – Funding: Linköping University, Division for Media and Information Technology
– Erasmus Placement Grant Internship student on AudioVisual Display Research at the Division for Media and Information Technology, Department for Science and Technology at Linköping University in Sweden (March 2022-July 2022)
– Erasmus Placement Grant Internship student on Sonification Research at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (September 2021-March 2022)
Works & Contributions
– Exploring the Influence of Frequency Components in AVAS for EVs on Annoyance Perception
– Installation - contribution to the project: Schrödinger’s box. Marian Weger, Iason Svoronos-Kanavas & Robert Höldrich. Audio Mostly Conference 2022. Picture
– The Augmented Floor - Assessing Auditory Augmentation. Katharina Groß-Vogt, Iason Svoronos Kanavas & Marian Weger. Audio Mostly Conference 2022. Video
– Construction site data SonVis.
– An exploratory use of audiovisual displays on oceanographic data Video.
Software
– Synerg(e)ia.
Community Involvement
– Student volunteer at Audio Mostly 2022, A Conference on Interaction with Sound, 6-9 September 2022, St Pölten, Austria.
– Member (2021 – Now): Audio-Visual-Analytics Community (AVAC)
– Member (2021 – Now): TOPLAP ATH (GR)
– Member (2021 – Now): MOSAIC research group for new sound interaction practices and interfaces (GR)