Michel Witter invites you for the second session of the re:MakingSense symposium series
on sensory augmentation: Translating, substituting, augmenting senses, on July 1st.
This session focuses on the process of translation between sensory modalities. It questions how the attributes of one sense are mapped onto another, how this new sensory information is integrated to perception, and how novel information is translated into senses. What technology is needed to do this? What information is sent? What is lost? How does that affect the resulting perception? And how does this, in turn, affect social interaction and performance?
Our brains receive information from our sensory organs, interpreting the incoming electrical signals and conveying them to us as a sensory perception. Today, technology makes it possible for individuals to receive information in one sensory mode and have it interpreted in another. For instance, ‘hearing’ light is possible. It is also possible to transmit non-sensory, or non-human sensory information to the brain to interpret as a sensory perception. For example, one can feel the Earth’s magnetic field.
For humans, this means that they either substitute some original (natural) senses with technology-based ones, try to add new senses to those they have, or to perceive in an enhanced manner. Perhaps, sensory augmentation technologies are even both substituting and augmenting senses at once.
Speakers
- Dr Giles Hamilton-Fletcher – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NYU Langone Health
- Antal Ruhl – lecturer and researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences
- Roseanne Wakely – co-founder of Rusty Squid
- Carl Hayden Smith – Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre at Ravensbourne University London
When: Thu, 1st of July 2021 – 6:00pm – 7:30pm CEST (Online event)
Please, register for free using Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive an email with a link to the online event prior to it starting.
