Stefania Serafin

keynote Thursday 21 August @ ADM, is a full professor with "special responsibilities in sound for multimodal environments" in the Medialogy section at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She teaches and researches on sound models and sound design for interactive media and multimodal interfaces. Her book Sonic Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2013) deals with the exploitation of sound as one of the principal channels to convey information, meaning, and aesthetic/emotional qualities in interactive contexts. Research interests include: Multimodal interfaces, interactive sonification, and auditory perception and cognition. (http://imi.aau.dk/~sts/) 

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Charles Spence

keynote Friday 22 August @ HSS is the head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory. He is interested in how people perceive the world around them. In particular, how our brains manage to process the information from each of our different senses to form the extraordinarily rich multisensory experiences that fill our daily lives. He has consulted for a number of multinational companies advising on various aspects of multisensory design, packaging, and branding. The author of over 500 published articles, Spence became widely known when he received the 2008 IG Nobel Prize for Nutrition for his groundbreaking work on the ‘sonic crisp’. (http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/principal-investigators/charles-spence)

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