The 2nd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design was
held in November 2007 in Seoul, Korea and followed a successful first workshop
in Glasgow, UK in 2006. The 2007 event was sponsored by the Korean Ministry
of Information and Communication, the Korean Institute of Next-Generation
Computing, and the Association of Next-Generation Computing Industry. We
remain grateful to these institutions and the generous support they extended
towards us. The main focus of the HAID workshop series is to draw together
researchers around the theme of human – computer interaction using the modalities
of sound and touch. It addresses questions such as how to combine sound
and touch interaction together most effectively. Or, are there situations in which
one modality offers benefits over the other? Are there situations in which sound
and touch offer unique benefits, or alternatively, in which they are inappropriate?
Which design formalisms and frameworks can specifically benefit researchers
considering multi-modal interfaces?