The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio

Edited by Karen Collins, Canada Research Chair in Interactive Audio, Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology, University of Waterloo, Bill Kapralos, Assistant Professor, Game Development and Entrepreneurship, University of Ontario Institute of Technology., and Holly Tessler, Assistant Professor in the Music Industries, Northeastern University

Karen Collins is Canada Research Chair in Interactive Audio in the Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology, University of Waterloo. She is the author of Game Sound (MIT Press 2008), which won the International Association for the Study of Popular Musics biennial book award in 2009, and the editor of From Pac-Man to Pop Music (Ashgate 2008). Bill Kapralos is an Assistant Professor in the Game Development and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Holly Tessler is an Assistant Professor in the Music Industries program at Northeastern University. She is the co-editor of Sounds of the Overground (University of Turku, 2010) and has published widely on music and game industry issues.

MJ Bishop - Associate Professor and Director of the College of Education's Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program.

Nye Parry - Sound artist, composer and Research Fellow at CRiSAP, University of the Arts, London.

Dave Raybould - Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University where he teaches game audio, sound design and synthesis.

Jon Inge Lomeland - MA in Ethnomusicology and musicology from the University of Bergen, Norway, where he studied music and emotions in the game World of Warcraft.

Norbert Herber - Musician and a sound artist. His work explores the relationship between people and sound within mediated environments-spaces created by software, sensors, speakers, and other mediating technologies.

Inger Ekman - Teaches and researches the experiential aspects of gaming and interactive media at University of Tampere and Aalto University. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree on game sound.

Chris Nash - Professional programmer and composer, who completed his PhD on music HCI at the University of Cambridge.

Alan Blackwell -Reader in Interdisciplinary Design at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Andy Dolphin - Composer & digital artist currently working as a lecturer in Music, Sound & Performance at Leeds Met University, UK.

Tom Langhorst - Lecturer in game sound at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands.

Guillaume Roux-Girard - PhD student in film studies at University of Montreal.

Rolf Nordahl - Associate professor in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Niels C. Nilsson - PhD student in the Medialogy group at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Rafal Zapala - Composer and a faculty member at the Academy of Music in Poznan.

Benjamin Schroeder - Researcher, artist, and engineer living in Brooklyn, New York.

David Bessell - Teaches Music and Music Technology at Plymouth University.

Niels Böttcher - graduated from Aalborg University in Copenhagen, at the Institute of Architecture, Design and Media Technology. In 2002 he founded the record label JenkaMusic, which has more than 16 international releases.

Stefania Serafin - Professor with special responsabilities in sound for multimodal environments in the Medialogy section at Aalborg University in Copenhagen.

Michael Cohen - Professor at the Unviersity of Aizu, Japan.

Jan Paul Herzer - Sound designer, musician and programmer in the spectrum between acoustic scenography, functional sound design and installation art. He is one founder of "Hands on Sound."

Tim van Geelen - Dutch interactive sound specialist, and a teacher at one of Holland's highest standing college.

Damian Kastbauer - Freelance Technical Sound Designer working to help bridge the gap between sound designers, composers, and game developers.

Richard Stevens - Senior Lecturer and Teacher Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University where he leads the MSc. in Sound and Music for Interactive Games.

Holly Rogers - Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool and a Fulbright Scholar at the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University.

Melanie Fritsch - Research assistant at the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater - fimt, teaches in the music theatre studies department at the University of Bayreuth, and is also PhD candidate.

Anders-Petter Andersson - Sound designer and Assistant Professor in Interactive Sound Design at Kristianstad University in Sweden.

Birgitta Cappelen - Industrial designer, interaction designer, and Associate Professor at Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in Norway.

Natasa Paterson - Dublin-based composer and performer studying for a PhD exploring composition for location-aware audio applications.

Fionnuala Conway - Musician/composer and multimedia artist. Lecturer and Course director of the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Kiri Miller - Associate Professor of Music at Brown University.

Mike Frengel - Serves on the faculty of the music departments at Northeastern University and Boston Conservatory, where he teaches courses in music technology and composition.

Michael Gurevich - Assistant Professor of Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan, where he teaches media art, physical computing, and electronic chamber music.

Nick Collins - Composer, performer, and researcher who lectures at the University of Sussex.

Marc Ainger - Head of the theory/composition program at the Ohio State University. Sound artist who works in the area of computer and electronic music, often in combination with other media such as film, dance, and theater.

Helen Mitchell - Lecturer in Creative Music Technology at the University of Hull.

Leonard Paul - Has worked in the games industry since 1994 and has a history in composing, sound design, and coding for over twenty major game titles.

Andy Farnell - Computer scientist from the UK specialising in audio DSP and synthesis. Visiting professor at several European institutions and consultant to game and audio technology companies.

Victor Lazzarini - Senior Lecturer in Music at the NUI Maynooth.

Maia Hoeberechts - Research Theme Integrator for Engineering and Computational Research in the NEPTUNE Canada science team based at the University of Victoria.

Jeff Shantz - PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario.

Michael Katchabaw - Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario.