thanks for point out the work of David Eagleman which is
an amazing example of perceptual training- which allows
a person to 'feel' a data stream
David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans
in his case he has build a vest with mechanical stimuli and as the
data is fed into
the vest the human learns to detect patterns in the distrubution of stimuli on
their back- he talks of deaf people being able to 'feel' the applause
of spectators-
or even of the overall feeling of the stock market data as touch
patterns on their back
he mentions also taking sentiment analysis of twitter feeds into
sensory physical
feeling-this makes me think of roy ascott and his discussions of planetary
consciousness- one could imagine wearing a vest whcih would allow you
to 'sense' the emotions of people in a different location
my example of sonification data is indeed only one example where there
are many new possible modes of helping us find and understand patterns
in large data sets- when as eagleman points out the senses that humans
have are an accident of evolution- immersive data is a new sensory
situation and our visual coortex is badly designed for the kinds of
pattern finding we now need to do- we have great edge detectors
but lousy complex network structure detectors !
thanks for pointing the work of eagleman out !
i see from your web site: http://www.aledelapuente.org/
that you co directed the fantastic Gravedad de los Asuntos
which took nine mexican artists into zero gravity
La Gravedad de los Asuntos (The Gravity of Issues), a project
involving nine artists and scientists that will explore concepts of
gravity and develop work to be realized in Gravity Zero Parabolic
Flights. I co-directed this project with Nahum Mantra and Juan José
Díaz Infante, in collaboration with the Laboratorio Arte Alameda and
the National Institute of Nuclear Science UNAM, among other
institutions.
gravity is another example of a sense that is an accident of evolution
on our planet- and indeed as people go into
zero gravity they have to go through intensive perceptual training to
re calibrate their systems that have been totally designed
only to work well in one gravity
anyway- i suspect we will consider the crude use of music in science
films today as very primitive
a few hundred years from now when we have figured out how to do full
multi modal immersion in data !
roger malina
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From: Ale de la Puente <delapuente.ale@gmail.com>
...have you watch this?
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans
regards!!!
Ale
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:14 AM, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> yasminers
>
> I thought i would inject a different line of discussion about the role
> of sound or music accompanying science communications films
>
> here is an extreme example of music composed that actually
> "plays' the data
>
> What would LHC sound like if it was a heavy metal band
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXEnDM3hydM
>
> it is described as higgs boson sonification
>
> but more seriously- in scientific data analysis visualisation is a dominant
> mode of presentation and the use of other modes of perception rarely used-
> now however with many scientists putting their data into game engines-many
> new modes of navigation through data are possible- including using sound
> as a perceptual aid or addition that helps scientists understand/look for
> patterns in their data- there is a growing community of researchers
> working on
> data sonification in general
>
> my colleague scot gresham lancaster is the producer of the sound and data
> channel on Creative Disturbance art-science podcast platform:
>
> http://creativedisturbance.org/channel/sound-data/
>
> where he discusses with various experts aspects of data and sound
>
> some of the motivation for all this is tied to what Eleanor Gibson termed
> "perceptual learning"
>
>
> http://psych.nyu.edu/adolph/publications/AdolphKretch-inpress-GibsonTheory.pdf
>
> On Gibson's (1969) account, perceptual learning entails an increased
> ability to extract relevant
> information from a stimulus array as the result of experience. The
> traditional view of perceptual
> learning, dating back to Bishop Berkeley in the 1700s, is that animals
> must learn to perceive; the
> information at sensory receptors is impoverished and meaningless and
> thus a complete percept
> requires learning. In Gibson's view, the information at receptors is
> sufficient to support complete
> percepts from the start, and thus animals needn't learn to perceive;
> rather, they perceive to learn
> (E. J. Gibson, 1989, July). Perceptual learning is the key to
> knowledge and where it all begins
>
>
> http://psych.nyu.edu/adolph/publications/AdolphKretch-inpress-GibsonTheory.pdf
>
> the fact is that in every day cognition/perception we 'toggle' between
> sensory modes
> seamlessly as the best way to "extract information from a stimulus array"-
> yes
> in scientific communication we use music or sound as an accompaniment
> rather
> than as a perceptual learning tool
>
> it seems to me this is a growing trend in scientific communication
>
> does anyone have other examples of project that 'play the data ' ?
>
>
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