Emma Frid received her PhD in Sound and Music Computing from the Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in January 2020. Her thesis was entitled "Diverse Sounds - Enabling Inclusive Sonic Interaction" and focused on how Sonic Interaction Design can be used to promote inclusion and diversity in music-making. She is currently doing a 3 year postdoc at the STMS Laboratory at IRCAM, under a Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) International Postdoctoral Grant. Emma is the author of the first full review on Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs). Her research interests include Sonic Interaction Design (SID), inclusive music technology and practice, multimodal interface design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), human-AI interaction, and haptics. Emma holds a Master’s of Science in Engineering in Media Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and has been a graduate research trainee at Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL), McGill University, where she completed a Master’s Thesis project on vibrotactile feedback for live electronics. Emma has also worked as an Audio Research Intern at the Adobe Creative Intelligence Lab in San Francisco, where she focused on interfaces supporting AI Music generation. When Emma is not working with sound and music research, she is playing the violin and the piano, or taking pictures.
[2020-11-30] | New article about the project "Välklingande butiksvaror" published in Handelsnytt (in Swedish). |
[2020-11-30] | New paper on "Creating Digital Musical Instruments with and for Children: Including Vocal Sketching as a Method for Engaging in Codesign" published in Human Technologies, Special Issue on Music, Mind and Technology - Exploring the Embodied Musical Experience. |
[2020-11-06] | Announcement of funding from Handelsrådet/The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council for the project "Välklingande butiksvaror" (in Swedish). |
[2020-10-01] | I have been awarded an International Postdoctoral Grant from Vetenskapsrådet/the Swedish Research Council to conduct research to advance musical frontiers for people with disabilities through multimodal feedback and artificial intelligence. The research will be conducted at the STMS Laboratory at IRCAM, where I will be hosted by the COSMOS project. |
[2020-08-31] | My Adobe CHI2020 presentation "Music Creation by Example" is now available online. |
[2020-06-21] | The Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC2020) will be live streamed on June 24-26 on the SMC2020 YouTube channel. Our paper “Haptic Music - Exploring Whole-Body Vibrations and Tactile Sound for a Multisensory Music Installation” will be presented on June 24 at 6.15-7.30 CEST. The presentation can also be found here. |
[2020-06-20] | I will give a talk on "The Future of Inclusive Sonic Interaction Design" at the BMW Welt Future Forum: Resonances. Soundscapes of Electrification. on June 23rd (7-8.15PM CEST). It will be live streamed from here. The event will focus on insights into the sounds of tomorrow, featuring Renzo Vitale and guests such as Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) and André Fiebig. |
[2020-06-20] | Our paper "Sonification of the Self vs. Sonification of the Other: Differences in the Sonification of Performed vs. Observed Simple Hand Movements" is now available online. |
[2020-06-18] | Due to covid-19, Europa InTakt will be held in 2021. More details to come. |
[2020-06-18] | CHI 2020 Remote Presentations are now available from the SIGCHI Youtube Channel. Our paper presentation "Music Creation by Example" can be found here. |
[2020-05-21] | Join us on Thursday May 21 9 AM PT/12 ET/18 CET for a Virtual #CHI2020 #chi2020music session on Music and Sound Experiences with authors from Northwestern, Google Research, University of Padova, KTH, Adobe Research, CU Boulder and Spotify. RSVP here. |
[2020-05-11] | Our paper "Haptic Music - Exploring Whole-Body Vibrations and Tactile Sound for a Multisensory Music Installation" has been accepted to the SMC/CIM 2020 conference. |
[2020-04-16] | Some updates on my Bernadotte project can be found here. |
[2020-04-06] | I have received a Bernadotte scholarship from The Royal Swedish Academy of Music (KMA). The grant is given to support an artistic and/or scientific project in the music field. The Bernadotte programme offers mentored enrichment and development opportunities at a postdoctoral level for researchers and younger artistic practitioners. For more info, see the KMA webpage. |
[2020-04-01] | I will hold a lecture on "Accessible Digital Musical Instruments: Musical Interfaces in Inclusive Music Practice" at Europa InTakt 2020. |
[2020-04-01] | Our workshop "One Switch to Rule Them All - Hacking Access Switches and Exploring Issues in Inclusive Music Making" has been accepted for NIME2020. As a consequence of the spread of covid-19, NIME 2020 will be held entirely online. For updates, please see the NIME2020 webpage. |
[2020-03-26] | Due to covid-19, CHI2020 has been cancelled. The proceedings will still be published on April 25th, please see the CHI2020 webpage. |
[2020-03-06] | I will present my paper "Music Creation by Example" (Frid, Jin and Gomes, 2020) at CHI2020, Honolulu, Hawaii. The presentation is scheduled for the paper session entitled "Music & Sound Experiences" which takes place on Tuesday, April 28 between 16:00-17.15. For the full program, please refer to the CHI2020 webpage. |