Professor David Frohlich (Professor of Interaction Design, Director of the Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey) and Dr Philip Jackson (Reader in Machine Audition, University of Surrey) will give guest talks to the lab.
Professor David Frohlich – From e-books to a-books: A proposal for next generation paper.
Most discussions on the future of the book are couched in terms of the battle between print and screen, regular books versus e-books, and the diminishing value of paper in an electronic age. In this talk I introduce an alternative future in which paper and screen co-exist and are more intimately connected to allow new forms of paper-and-screen reading which combine the best of both worlds. In particular I introduce a new category of augmented books, or ‘a-books’, with printed hotlinks whose digital elements can be read on a nearby smartphone. This is achieved through two technologies for what might be called next generation paper: www.nextgenerationpaper.info
About David
David Frohlich is Director of Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey and Professor of Interaction Design. He joined the Centre in January 2005 to establish a new research agenda on new media innovation with social and cultural benefit. Current work includes a mixture of PhD and Research Council projects exploring personal media collections, assistive media and augmented paper. Prior to joining Digital World, David worked for 14 years as a senior research scientist at HP Labs, conducting design research on the future of mobile, domestic and photographic technology. David has a PhD in psychology from the University of Sheffield and post-doctoral training in Conversation Analysis from the University of York. He has also held visiting positions at the Royal College of Art, and the Universities of York, Manchester, Sydney (UTS) and Melbourne, and is founding editor of the international journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/david-frohlich
Philip Jackson – Six types of audio that DEFY reality! A taxonomy of audio augmented reality with examples
In this talk, we examine how the term ‘Audio Augmented Reality’ (AAR) is used in the literature, and how the concept is used in practice. In particular, AAR seems to refer to a variety of closely related concepts. In order to gain a deeper understanding of disparate work surrounding AAR, we present a taxonomy of these concepts and highlight both canonical examples in each category, as well as edge cases that help define the category boundaries.
About Philip
Philip Jackson is Reader in Machine Audition at the Centre for Vision, Speech & Signal Processing (CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK) with MA in Engineering (Cambridge University, UK) and PhD in Electronic Engineering (University of Southampton, UK). His broad interests in acoustical signals have led to research contributions in human speech perception and production, auditory processing and recognition, audio-visual machine perception, blind source separation, articulatory modeling, visual speech synthesis, sound field control, and spatial audio reverberation, capture, reproduction and quality evaluation [h-index 22; Google Scholar: bit.ly/2oTRw1C]. He led one of four research streams on object-based spatial audio in the S3A programme grant, funded in the UK by EPSRC.