Research and implementation of sonification, audification, earcons and speech synthesis are central interests of the ICAD.
ICAD is home to auditory display researchers, who come from different disciplines, through its conference and peer-reviewed proceedings.
Most of the proceedings are freely available through the Georgia Tech SMARTech repository.
[2] Auditory display professionals are board members of ICAD.
[3] This ICAD presidency has been held by Gregory Kramer (1992 - 1997), Jim Ballas (1997 - 2000), Eric Somers (2000–2003), Matti Gröhn (2003 - 2006), Bruce Walker (2006 - 2011),[4] Tony Stockman (2011 - 2016), David Worrall (2016 - 2018), and Myounghoon 'Philart' Jeon (2018 - 2022).