A journalist from the national broadcaster NRK came to our opening on Friday, and he made a story which was shown on the “cultural news” Friday night. The clip can be seen here (in Norwegian). Below is an image of Rolf Inge Godøy being interviewed before the opening.
As I have blogged about over on our project page, we are going to have an official opening of the new lab next Friday. Please come over if you are in the neighbourhood.
I had a spam attack in the comments fields of the blog a few weeks ago, leaving me close to 30 000 comments that I have to manually moderate. So I have decided to turn off the comment feature for now. Too bad, since I think the ability to comment on other people’s blog entries is an important part in the democratisation of the web.
One of the groups at the ISSSM showed a video of metronome synchronisation shot at the Nonlinear dynamics and medical physics group at Lancaster University. This is an old physics trick, first described by Huygens, but it is still fascinating. Here I found the video on Youtube:
AppleInsider reports on a set of patents for multimodal sensing (i.e. using two or more senses at the same time). Multimodal sensing has been a hot research topic in human-computer interaction for several years, based on the knowledge that human perception and cognition is fundamentally multimodal. If we want computers to respond more efficiently to human communication they will also have to use more than one modality in their sensing and communication....
We have slowly been moving into our new lab spaces over the last weeks. The official opening of the labs is scheduled for Friday 26 September, but we had a pre-opening “Open lab” for the new music students last week, and here are some of the pictures shot by Anne Cathrine Wesnes during the presentation. Here I am telling the students a little about our new research group, and showing the main room:...
Last week we started setting up a “black box” in the new lab space. It is great to finally have a more permanent motion lab set up that we can use for various types of observation studies and recording sessions.
I have written about the (hidden) possibility of exporting references from Google Scholar before, but since several people have asked about this lately, I will post a more detailed description of how you can do that here. It is very simple: 1. Go to Google Scholar 2. Select the Scholar preferences: 3. At the bottom of the preferences page you find a menu where you can choose which reference format you prefer (BibTex, Endnote, Reference Manager, etc....
Last week I presented the paper Some Challenges Related to Music and Movement in Mobile Music Technology at the Mobile Music Workshop in Vienna. A PDF of the paper is available here. Not sure if the abstract justifies the fairly dense paper, but at least it is compact. Mobile music technology opens many new opportunities in terms of location-aware systems, social interaction etc., but we should not forget that many challenges faced in ”immobile” music technology research are also apparent in mobile computing....
Another post from the Mobile Music Workshop in Vienna. Yesterday I saw a demo on the Audioscape project by Mike Wozniewski (McGill). He was using the Gumstix, a really small system running a Linux version called OpenEmbedded. He was running PDa (a Pure Data clone) and was able to process sensor data and run audio off of the small device.