Outputs (24)

Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Taie, I., Di Franco, P., Tymkiw, M., Williams, D., & Daly, I. (2022). Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits. PLoS ONE, 17(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269370

Museums have widely embraced virtual exhibits. However, relatively little attention is paid to how sound may create a more engaging experience for audiences. To begin addressing this lacuna, we conducted an online experiment to explore how sound infl... Read More about Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits.

What our bodies tell us about noise (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2022). What our bodies tell us about noise. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.689100

Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Not only is noise unwanted, it is expensive and bad for human health. But what sounds like noise to one person might be a happy sound for someone else, so how do we study noise? This article explains how we try to... Read More about What our bodies tell us about noise.

On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Hodge, V., & Wu, C. (2020). On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, 497864. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.497864

Increasingly music has been shown to have both physical and mental health benefits including improvements in cardiovascular health, a link to reduction of cases of dementia in elderly populations, and improvements in markers of general mental well-be... Read More about On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music (2020)
Journal Article
Daly, I., Nicolaou, N., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., & Nasuto, S. (2020). Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music. Scientific Data, 7(1), 177. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0507-6

Music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. However, the neurological mechanisms by which music induces affect are not fully understood. Our project sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to af... Read More about Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music.

Electroencephalography reflects the activity of sub-cortical brain regions during approach-withdrawal behaviour while listening to music (2019)
Journal Article
Daly, I., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., & Nasuto, S. (2019). Electroencephalography reflects the activity of sub-cortical brain regions during approach-withdrawal behaviour while listening to music. Scientific reports, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45105-2

The ability of music to evoke activity changes in the core brain structures that underlie the experience of emotion suggests that it has the potential to be used in therapies for emotion disorders. A large volume of research has identified a network... Read More about Electroencephalography reflects the activity of sub-cortical brain regions during approach-withdrawal behaviour while listening to music.

Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2018). Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.5546

“Stagger” Lee Shelton (1865-1912) was an African-American carriage driver and sometime-pimp from Missouri. He became immortalized in song as a folklore antihero after murdering a drinking partner following a political argument gone bad in a St Louis... Read More about Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard.

Unconsciously interactive films in a cinema environment — a demonstrative case study (2018)
Journal Article
Kirke, A., Williams, D., Miranda, E., Bluglass, A., Whyte, C., Pruthi, R., & Eccleston, A. (2018). Unconsciously interactive films in a cinema environment — a demonstrative case study. Digital Creativity, 29(2-3), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2017.1407344

‘Many worlds’ is a short narrative live-action film written and directed so as to provide multiple linear routes through the plot to one of four endings, and designed for showing in a cinema environment. At two points during the film, decisions are m... Read More about Unconsciously interactive films in a cinema environment — a demonstrative case study.

Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study (2018)
Journal Article
Kirke, A., Williams, D., Miranda, E., Bluglass, A., Whyte, C., Pruthi, R., & Eccleston, A. (2018). Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study. Digital Creativity, 29(2-3), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2017.1407344

‘Many worlds’ is a short narrative live-action film written and directed so as to provide multiple linear routes through the plot to one of four endings, and designed for showing in a cinema environment. At two points during the film, decisions are m... Read More about Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study.

Personalised, multi-modal, affective state detection for hybrid brain-computer music interfacing (2018)
Journal Article
Daly, I., Williams, D., Malik, A., Weaver, J., Kirke, A., Hwang, F., …Nasuto, S. (2020). Personalised, multi-modal, affective state detection for hybrid brain-computer music interfacing. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 11(1), 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2018.2801811

Brain-computer music interfaces (BCMIs) may be used to modulate affective states, with applications in music therapy, composition, and entertainment. However, for such systems to work they need to be able to reliably detect their user's current affec... Read More about Personalised, multi-modal, affective state detection for hybrid brain-computer music interfacing.