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Reading group

The IMC group meets on a regular basis to discuss papers of interest. Details of dates and papers appear below:

27th Sep 2007 - 13 Dec 2007

  • Multi-party Interaction Reading Group: During the autumn term, we will be discussing some prominent papers in the area of multi-party interaction. This is largely to motivate/explore new research strands within the field. The schedule plus details of the papers to be discussed can be found here.

29th Jan 2007:

  • Currently reading Division 1 of Heidegger's Being and Time. More details here.

5th June 2006:

  • For the summer, we will be reading selected writings from "Maurice Merleau-Ponty: basic writings", edited by Thomas Baldwin. This week, the Merleau-Ponty reading will be The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology.

27th March 2006:

  • Chris and Tony talking about the recent SonEnvir workshop, in which multi-disciplinary teams worked on a series of scientific data sets, ranging from EEG data, climate, world population and particle physics data to produce sonifications. The exercise provided a set of very interesting case studies relevant to both sound design and issues of interdisciplinary working.

20th March 2006:

6th March 2006:

  • Sinan Bokesoy will present his work in the AHI Lab

27th February 2006:

  • Meg will be holding today's reading group. We will be discussing "Myths in Life Stories" by Jean Peneff.

20th February 2006:

  • Nabavian S. and Bryan-Kinns N. (2006) Analysing Group Creativity: A Distributed Cognitive Study of Group Music Composition. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2006 Cognitive Science Conference.

13th February 2006:

  • Hollan, J., Hutchins, E., Kirsh, D. (2000) ‘Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research’. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 7(2), 174-196. [pdf]

6th February 2006:

  • Winberg, F. and Bowers, J. 2004. Assembling the senses: towards the design of cooperative interfaces for visually impaired users. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 332-341. [pdf]

30th January 2006:

  • Michael Kubovy and David Van Valkenburg, Auditory and visual objects, Cognition, Volume 80, Issues 1-2, June 2001, Pages 97-126. [ pdf]

23rd January 2006:

  • K. R. Scherer & M. R. Zentener (2001) Emotional effects of music: Production rules in Music and emotion: theory and research , Juslin, P.N. & Sloboda, J.A. (ed.) . Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. [ pdf]

9th January 2006:

  • B. Galantucci (2005) An experimental study of the emergence of human communication systems. Cognitive Science 29, p737-767. [ pdf]

29th November 2005:

  • Joe Leach talks about "writing papers/programs [jointly] using remote collaboration technology"

21st November 2005:

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31st October 2005:

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10th October 2005:

  • Auslander P. (2002). Live from Cyberspace: or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 24.1: 16-21. [pdf]
  • Blau H. (2002).The Human Nature of the Bot: a response to Philip Auslander, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 24.1: 22-24. [pdf]