Events 
| CRC Colloquium |
| Montag, 21.05.2007 16:00 - 18:00 | |
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Dr. Gregory Kramer "Auditory Displays, Meditation-based communication, and Alignment" Dr. Gregory Kramer's lecture and subsequent discussion will explore the relationships between auditory displays, meditation-based communication, especially mindfulness, and alignment. Auditory displays, particularly interactive data sonification, may contribute to alignment by providing an enriched, multi-modal interface for exploring data and navigating in virtual environments. Dr. Kramer will outline some of the unique benefits of auditory displays and what such displays have to contribute to our understanding of human perception and cognition. Dr. Kramer will work with Bielefeld's Thomas Hermann to provide some recent sonification examples for complex data, and discuss these from the standpoint of the interactive alignment program's inquiry into the potential of sonification both for supporting alignment between humans and between a human and technical systems. Dr. Kramer will also discuss the applications to alignment of his work with meditation-based communication. Mindfulness, or present-centered awareness, is a skill can be cultivated and applied to interpersonal communication. When combined with tranquility, the communicants become highly sensitized to shared meaning or its absence, to emotion, and to the construction of the social self. Dr. Kramer will suggest that mindfulness and related qualities are essential for a good understanding of cognitive processes in human-machine and human-human interactions, and that meditative approaches may contribute to the study of alignment and to higher levels of alignment among communcants. Biography Dr. Gregory Kramer is a leading researcher in the field of data sonification and auditory interfaces. He inaugurated the International Conference on Auditory Display and edited the first book published in this area, "Auditory Display: Sonification, Audification and Auditory Interfaces" (Addison Wesley). Dr. Kramer chaired the early ICAD conferences, co-edited the ICAD '94 and '96 proceedings, and founded the non-profit corporation International Community for Auditory Display, where he is now Chairman Emeritus. He also chaired a National Science Foundation workshop convened to report on the state of sonification research and recommend a research agenda. Kramer lectures on this topic at research institutions worldwide. He was a longtime member of the Santa Fe Institute where his area of concentration was sonification of high dimensional systems and understanding how we comprehend complexity. Kramer is on the Editorial Board of the MIT journal Presence. Prior to his work in auditory displays, Kramer was an internationally active music composer. He scored numerous award-winning film, video and dance works, performed extensively, and founded Harvestworks, the Manhattan-based media center. He was a National Endowment for the Arts Composition Fellow and Assistant Professor at New York University from 1975-79. As President of Clarity, a company he founded in 1981, Dr. Kramer developed successful and award-winning music and audio products, patents and technologies. Gregory Kramer is also a respected meditation teacher, best known for his work on Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation practice that extends Buddhist mindfulness and other meditation practices into dialogue. His most recent book is the forthcoming Insight Dialogue from Shambhala Publications. |
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| Contact | |
| contact-person: | Thomas Hermann |
| homepage: | ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de |