Academic Centre
April 7, 2022
16:00
Zoom
Wearables, theatre, and the cognitive sciences
Guest lecturer: Dr. Jamie A. Ward, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr Jamie A Ward Jamie is a lecturer at the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London. He received his Ph.D. in electronics from ETH Zurich, where he developed some of the first uses of multi-modal, wearable sensing for human activity recognition. He continued this work as a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Computing at Lancaster University, and later as a postdoc at DFKI Germany, and the UCL Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience. In between these posts he retrained and worked as an actor. His work centers around the convergence of technology, neuroscience, theatre, and autism.
In this talk, he will explore how three very different topics - wearable technology, theatre, and the cognitive sciences - can be brought together in exciting new ways. This rich and highly inter-disciplinary combination has potential impact on a range of diverse areas including theatrical performance and autism research.
