EMMA FRID

We have received funding for the project The Soundscape of Retail: A Comparative Study of Sound Design and Music Strategies Across Industries!

I obtained a Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate.

I am happy to announce that I am now a CPACC Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies! With a total test score of 752 out of 800, I performed 'above standard' in all three categories (Disabilities, Challenges, and Assistive Technologies; Accessibility and Universal Design; Declarations, Standards, Laws, and Management Strategies).

The e-book for our Special Issue New Advances and Novel Applications of Music Technologies for Health, Well-being, and Inclusion is now out!

The editorial for our Special Issue New Advances and Novel Applications of Music Technologies for Health, Well-being, and Inclusion is out, along with 9 interesting papers! More info can be found on the Frontiers website.

My chapter Musical Robots: Overview and Methods for Evaluation is now published in the book Sound and Robotics (editor: Richard Savery). Visit the Musical Robots companion website for sound and video examples. Learn more about the book on the Routledge publisher website.

Our paper Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network is now available in the journal Music and Science.

Our paper Collaborative Music-Making: Special Educational Needs School Assistants as Facilitators in Performances with Accessible Digital Musical Instruments is now out! Read the full article in Frontiers in Computer Science.

New paper entitled Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network accepted for publication in Music and Science.

We presented our work Collaborative music-making with Special Education Needs students and their assistants: A study on music playing among preverbal individuals with the Funki instruments at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference.

We presented our paper Sharing Earthquake Narratives: Making Space for Others in our Autobiographical Design Process at the CHI2023 conference. Read the complete paper on the ACM Digital Library website and watch the video on Youtube.

Our extended abstract A Dual-Task Experimental Methodology for Exploration of Saliency of Auditory Notifications in a Retail Soundscape was accepted for the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2023)! More info can be found on the ICAD webpage.

Our paper SuperOM: a SuperCollider Class to Generate Music Scores in OpenMusic was accepted for the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) conference!

I will be Workshop Chair for ICAD2023. Check out the published Call for Submissions!

Our paper Haptic Music Players for Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) — Exploring Different Modes of Interaction for Felt Sound was accepted for the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2022)! The work will be part of the session Multi-modal solutions to enhance hearing. More info can be found on the ICA2022 website.

I gave a talk on Accessible Music Technology in Research at the Accessible Music Technology Conference. All recordings from the event will be made available soon!

Our paper Customizing and Evaluating Accessible Multisensory Music Experiences with Pre-Verbal Children—A Case Study on the Perception of Musical Haptics Using Participatory Design with Proxies is now published in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction!

Our extended abstract titled Sounds and Satisfaction: A Novel Conceptualization of the Soundscape in Sales and Service Settings was just accepted for the 8th Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference (NRWC).

Our project report Sonifiering av varor i butik: en pilotstudie om att minska stölder i detaljhandeln med hjälp av ljud och musik is now available as a PDF download.

Our chapter Designing and Reporting Research on Sound Design and Music for Health - Methods and Frameworks for Impact is now published in Doing Research in Sound Design (Routledge)!

The ICMA ARRAY2021 on "Diversity, pluralism – equity?" is out! View my article The Gender Gap and the Computer Music Narrative on the ARRAY journal website.

I gave a short talk on Accessible Musical Interactions for Novices at the Mercredis de STMS seminar. The seminar also included presentations from Emily Graber and Corentin Guichaoua. A recording of the entire seminar can be found on Youtube.

We presented an extended abstract titled On Designing Sounds to Reduce Shoplifting in Retail Environments at the 7th Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference (NRWC) 2021. More information about the project can be found on the KTH project page.

I will be Project Guide and give a talk on Music Technology for Health at the 4th Women in Music Information Retrieval Workshop (WiMIR), held on October 29, 20.00, GMT+2. More information can be found on the WIMIR website. The WiMIR workshop is a satellite event of the ISMIR2021 conference.

I will be Paper Chair for NIME2022, together with Andrew McPherson. The Call for Papers is now published on the NIME2022 website!

I was interviewed by KTH Press about my work on ADMIs and the collaboration with the Dibber Rullen School. Read the interview on the KTH website (in Swedish). An english version is published on the COSMOS blog.

I was intereviewed for the Women Nordic Music Technology (WoNoMute) interview series. WoNoMute is an organization that aims to promote and connect the work of women in music tech at local, national and international levels. Read my WoNoMute interview on their website.

We have two papers accepted for ICAD2021! The first one, Mapping Inter-Cardiovascular Time-Frequency Coherence to Harmonic Tension in Sonification of Ensemble Interaction Between a COVID-19 Patient and the Medical Team will be presented on June 26 at 6.30 PM Paris time (UTC+2). The second one, Auditory Notification of Customer Actions in a Virtual Retail Environment: Sound Design, Awareness and Attention, will be presentated on June 27 at 7.30 PM. The full ICAD program can be found on the ICAD webpage.

Last week we presented our work Reimagining (Accessible) Digital Musical Instruments: A Survey on Electronic Music-Making Tools at NIME2021. Watch our NIME2021 presentation video.

I gave a short talk about Women in Sound and Music Computing at the event Féminisme — Musique — Technologie, which was part of IRCAM Manifeste. View a video from the event on Youtube. My presentation starts after ~39 minutes.

Our paper Perceptual Evaluation of Blended Sonification of Mechanical Robot Sounds Produced by Emotionally Expressive Gestures: Augmenting Consequential Sounds to Improve Non-verbal Robot Communication is now published in the International Journal of Social Robotics.

On May 6 the European Research Council celebrated 10 000 grantees with an online ceremony, and the COSMOS project was selected as one of fifteen stories to be featured on how the ERC transformed science! More information can be found on the COSMOS website.

Our work Reimagining (Accessible) Digital Musical Instruments: A Survey on Electronic Music-Making Tools was accepted as full paper at NIME2021 and can now be found on PubPub.

Our paper titled Perceptual Evaluation of Blended Sonification of Mechanical Robot Sounds Produced by Emotionally Expressive Gestures: Augmenting Consequential Sounds to Improve Non-verbal Robot Communication has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO).

I will give a short introduction to ADMIs at Interact@CIRMMT - Fostering Inclusion in Music: Perspectives from Practitioners and Researchers in Music Therapy and Technology on March 30 at 5.30 PM EDT/10.30 CET (online). For more info, see the CIRMMT or IDMIL webpage or this FB event.

We are presenting our work Robust Non-Verbal Expression in Humanoid Robots: New Methods for Augmenting Expressive Movements with Sound at the Sound in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop, held at the 16th Annual Conference for Basic and Applied Human-Robot Interaction Research (HRI), on 12 March 2021 - 12:30-16:30 MST. Download our workshop abstract (PDF).

New article about the project Välklingande butiksvaror published in Handelsnytt (in Swedish).

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.

Announcement of funding from Handelsrådet/The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council for the project Välklingande butiksvaror (in Swedish).

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.

My Adobe CHI2020 presentation Music Creation by Example is now available on the Adobe Research website.

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 on Youtube.

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 Facebook. 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.

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.

Due to covid-19, Europa InTakt will be held in 2021. More details to come.

CHI 2020 Remote Presentations are now available from the SIGCHI Youtube Channel. Watch our "Music Creation by Example" presentation video.

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 for the CHI2020 Music and Sound session.

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.

Read some updates about my Bernadotte project on the KTH website.

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.

I will hold a lecture on Accessible Digital Musical Instruments: Musical Interfaces in Inclusive Music Practice at Europa InTakt 2020.

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 online. For updates, please see the NIME2020 webpage.

Due to COVID-19, CHI2020 has been cancelled. The proceedings will still be published on April 25th, please see the CHI2020 webpage.

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 titled 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.