Dear all,
Fully funded PhDs in the prestigious Sussex Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme which brings together doctoral researchers from different disciplines to advance our understanding of the interactions between sensing, perception, and awareness in humans, animals, and machines.
Dates: Submission deadline 31 January 2019, interviews on 25-27 February 2019. Successful candidates will be notified by March 4th.
More info
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/sensation/applications
Please forward,
best regards,
Alice
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Psychology
Neuroscience
Physiology
Artificial intelligence
Robotics
Philosophy
Digital humanities
Music
Music/ Sound specific projects include:
Multi-modal approaches to augmented reality in computational
arts
Supervisors: Dr Chris Kiefer, [log in to unmask] & Dr
Cecile Chevalier, [log in to unmask]
Augmented reality (AR) technology is developing at speed, and
computational artists are beginning to experiment with new AR
tools to create new aesthetic experiences (Chevalier and Keifer,
2018). Conversely, computational arts provide a testing ground for
creating experimental scenarios that may provide new insights into
the impact of AR technologies on human perception and behaviour.
Early conceptions of AR (a.g. Azuma, 1997) acknowledged the
potential of rich multi-modal approaches (e.g. sound, smell,
touch). Current consumer AR technology shows a tendency towards
predominantly visual augmentation and towards the provision of
information, leaving a widely underexplored area that focuses on
rich multisensory perceptual mediation. We welcome proposals
exploring augmented reality's new potential in the computational
arts, and finding new understanding of audience perception with AR
tools.
Perception of naturalistic sounds and well-being -
implications for composition of sound environments
Supervisors: Dr Alice Eldridge, [log in to unmask] & Dr Hugo
Critchley, [log in to unmask]
Natural sounds have long been associated with evocation of
well-being. Empirically, natural sounds are reported to be more
'pleasant' than artificial sounds (Guastavino, 2006), and are also
reported to promote measurable health benefits, including reduced
pain and anxiety in health care (Chaing, 2012). Recent research
helps explain these health benefits through observed alternations
to autonomic activity when listening to naturalistic vs artificial
sounds (Van Praag et al 2017). The implications for the
composition of every-day as well as therapeutic sound environments
are significant (online, games, virtual reality, as well as TV,
film and music) but under-explored. At the same time, digital
music composition methods may provide further insights into open
questions: it is not clear, for example, whether this effect is
due to the formal perceptual properties (harmonic, timbral) of the
sounds, or wider associations of natural environments that are
evoked. Projects in this area would develop upon the work of Van
Praag et al (2017) to gain deeper insight into the perceptual
basis and compositional implications of this phenomenon. Students
should have a background in music as well as one of cognitive
neuroscience or psychology; experience of computational methods is
highly desirable.
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