Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation Workshop
Dates
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March, 2009.
Location
The workshop took place in rooms 120 and 121 at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which is on the University of Sussex campus, Brighton, UK.
Workshop Programme
Details of the workshop programme can be found here.Keynote Talks
The keynote talks from the workshop are available to download in PDF format.
- Malika Auvray - Replacing One Sense by Another: Sensory Substitution and the Classification of our Sensory Modalities
- Ron Chrisley - Sensory Augmentation, Synthetic Phenomenology and Interactive Empiricism
- Andy Clark - Human Nature: Work-In-Progress?
- Tom Froese and Adam Spiers - Exploring 'Mind-As-It-Could-Be'
- Charles Lenay - Scientific Studies of Cognitive Technologies
- Carson Reynolds - I am Near my Navel: Learning Mappings between Location and Skin
Descriptions of Using the Sensory Augmentation Demonstrations
Descriptions by various participants of their experiences of using the sensory augmentation devices are online here.Position Papers
The participants' position papers are online here.Funding
This workshop is funded by the UbiComp Grand Challenge.
Organizers
Jon Bird and Paul Marshall
Pervasive Interaction Lab
Open University
Tom Froese
University of Sussex