May 2019
Kathryn B. Francis is now a Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Bradford, UK
April 2019
Guy Edmonds proposed historically aware film viewings in a panel at the 'Universität der Künste Berlin'. His contribution is now published in a book.
April 2019
Ilaria Torre published a paper entitled “Can you tell the robot by the voice?…” at the prestigious Human-Robot Interaction conference in Daegu (South Korea).
March 2019
Raluce Briazu presented her research on the role of counterfactual thinking in deception at a conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Higher Cognitive Function
February 2019
A group of CogNovo fellows secured a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) to run a Multiple Disciplinary Research Leadership Summer School in the Philippines.
November 2018
Vaibhav Tyagi and his co-authors published “The right side of creativity: Creative personality predicts political party affiliation”
November 2018
David Bridges presents PsychoPy at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego
October 2018
“The sensitive, open creator” is a correlation study on temperament, personality, and creative potential and achievement
October 2018
Klara Łucznik participated at the interdisciplinary 7th Peripatetic Conference
October 2018
Klara Łucznik, Tara Zaksaite, and Diego S. Maranan receive funding to travel to the Philippines
October 2018
David Bridges publishes review “Sensitive individuals are more creative” in ‘Personality and Individual Differences’
October 2018
Results from two workshops on clinical trials during interplanetary missions were presented at the International Astronautical Conference
October 2018
Ilaria Torre is co-organising an interdisciplinary workshop on Measuring and Designing Trust in Human-Agent Interaction
October 2018
Frank Loesche publishes ‘Dira’, a novel experimental design to research ‘Eureka moments’, in Frontiers in Psychology.
September 2018
Dr Klara Łucznik graduated from the University of Plymouth with her interdisciplinary work on flow and dance.
September 2018
Diego S. Maranan, Agi Haines, Sean Clarke, and Frank Loesche build and test unique immersive experience “RE/ME”
September 2018
Frank Loesche participated in the annual convention of the American Psychological Association
August 2018
Frank Loesche talks about novel experimental paradigm Dira and multi-layered model of creativity
July 2018
Diego S. Maranan, Agi Haines, Sean Clarke, and Frank Loesche give guest lecture at the University of California
June 2018
Francois Lemarchand publishes a novel approach to computational aesthetics in Pattern Recognition Letters
May 2018
Thomas R. Colin, Frank Loesche, Pinar Oztop, and Klara Łucznik present their work at the conference in Canterbury
May 2018
“Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition” published at Nature's Scientific Reports
April 2018
“Simulating moral actions” is one of the top 100 read papers at Nature's Scientific Reports.
March 2018
Guy Edmonds presented a comparison between a hand-cranked film and a digital version at "The New Projectionists".
February 2018
This years Off the Lip is planned for 19/06/2018 in Plymouth, followed by two days of a interdisciplinary grant writing workshop.
February 2018
Diego reflects on his experience at CogNovo in a series of four talks.
November 2017
Eugenia presented “Visualising the Ordinary: On Pierre Schoeller’s ‘The Lost Time’” at the Migration Lab conference
November 2017
Kathryn B. Francis, Raluca Briazu, and Agi Haines explain their working process.
November 2017
Kathryn B. Francis publishes "Virtual morality in the helping professions…" in the BJoP
November 2017
AVANT 8 (Special Issue): "Off the Lip: Collaborative Approaches to Cognitive Innovation"
October 2017
Francois Lemarchand receives a hardware developer kit to further pursue aesthetic classification for the next generation mobile phones
October 2017
Kathryn B. Francis, Raluca Briazu, and Agi Haines publish article on simulating moral actions.
October 2017
Frank Loesche is going to present a poster at the Creativity and Innovation Week Conference in Nijmegen.
October 2017
Guy Edmonds presents two lectures, first at an international symposium at the UDK Berlin, then a seminar on amateur films in Spain.
October 2017
Dr Kathryn B. Francis started her post doc on an interdisciplinary project at the University of Reading.
October 2017
Klara Łucznik presents at the 3rd Avant Conference 2017.
October 2017
Dr Ilaria Torre started post doc at Trinity College Dublin.
October 2017
Klara Łucznik presents her work at IADMS2017 in Houston.
October 2017
Dr Tara Zaksaite started her new position at the Open University.
September 2017
RE/ME, a project with Diego, Agi, and Jack won a residency in San Franciso.
September 2017
Two teams with Diego, Agi, Jack, and Michael shortlisted for the STARTS event in Brussels.
July 2017
Ilaria Torre presented her work at the 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing), in Hersonissos (Crete)
July 2017
Agi Haines is currently in exhibition in a new addition of Human+ The Future Of Our Species at ArtScience Museum Singapore.
June 2017
Mihaela Taranu participated at Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory (CCLM) Summer School on Cognitive Control and Consciousness.
June 2017
Christos Melidis publishes "Intuitive control of mobile robots: an architecture for autonomous adaptive dynamic behaviour integration" in "Cognitive Processing".
June 2017
Jack McKay Fletcher, part of last years winning team, returns to "Hack the Brain"; this time collaborating with composer Sean Clarke.
June 2017
Ilaria Torre, Mihaela Taranu, and Klara Łucznik at Plymouth SoP Conference – Ilaria winning "Best Poster Award".
May 2017
Klara Łucznik, Ilaria Torre, and Frank Loesche at UKCreativity2017 – Frank winning "Best Poster Award".
April 2017
Mihaela Taranu presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
April 2017
Eugenia Stamboliev, Guy Edmonds, and Michael Straeubig present at the Future Imperfect Symposium.
March 2017
Eugenia Stamboliev talks about "Performing intimacy" in the context of Artificial Emotions.
March 2017
Agi Haines spoke at the first Primer conference.
February 2017
Agi Haines, Jacqui Knight, and Eugenia Stamboliev presented papers at the symposium Creative Encounters with Science and Technology.
February 2017
Vaibhav Tyagi publishes "The Risky Side of Creativity", also in Frontiers in Psychology.
Febrary 2017
Previous CogNovo research fellow Ivana Kajic and her her supervisor Thomas Wennekers publish in Frontiers in Psychology.
January 2017
Jack McKay Fletcher publishes "From Structure to Activity: Using Centrality Measures to Predict Neuronal Activity" in the International Journal of Neural Systems.
January 2017
Raluca Briazu publishes 'Undoing the past in order to lie in the present: counterfactual thinking and deceptive communication' in Cognition.
January 2017
Ilaria Torre and Frank Loesche have published the article "Overcoming Impasses in Conversations: A Creative Business" in "Creativity. Theories-Research-Applications".
December 2016
Guy Edmonds organised this event at Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam to talk about expanding the reach of film preservation to include the cinema experience.
December 2016
Klara Łucznik facilitate the workshop ‘A Space to Wonder’ as a part of Dance Fields Un-Symposium.
December 2016
Michael Sonne Kristensen published in the journal SoundEffects.
December 2016
An article by Giorgio Ganis, David Bridges, Chun-Wei Hsu, and Haline E. Schendan has been published in the most recent NeuroImage.
November 2016
Agi Haines recently presented at Kikk festival in Namur Belium.
November 2016
Eugenia Stamboliev recently spoke at the ECREA 2016 pre-conference on "Media and Migration".
November 2016
Michael Sonne Kristensen presented an ethnographic study from the European Space Agency at the Europe Chapter of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
November 2016
Michael Straeubig delivers "Do Playful Systems Know That They Play?" and "Concept and Design of Playful Systems" at PoCG16.
October 2016
Klara Łucznik is giving a talk and presenting a poster at this years IADMS in Hong Kong
October 2016
Kathryn B. Francis publishes "Virtual morality: Transitioning from moral judgment to moral action?" in the journal PLOS ONE.
October 2016
Christos Melidis presents "KURE: Kinematic Universal Remote intErface, A Human Centred Remote Robot Control Paradigm" in Budapest.
September 2016
Thomas R. Colin publishes the article "Hierarchical reinforcement learning as Creative Problem Solving".
September 2016
Eugenia presented her paper "In the Awe of Things" at TaPRA 2016 in Bristol.
September 2016
CogNovo research fellow Chun-Wei wrote about her secondment at the fMRI lab at the University in Padua.
September 2016
CogNovo research fellow Diego S. Maranan explained "Why I'm Making Vibrating Underwear" at Interesting2016 in London.
September 2016
CogNovo research fellow Agi Haines invites to "The anatomy lesson: dissecting medical futures" on 24 and 25 Sep in Amsterdam
September 2016
CogNovo research fellow Pinar Oztop is presenting her work at the 50th conference of the DGP (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie) in Leipzig
September 2016
CogNovo research fellows Vaibhav Tyagi and Pinar Oztop are presenting their work at the 2nd MIC conference
September 2016
CogNovo research fellow Agi Haines presents ‘Circumventive Organs’ at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
September 2016
CogNovo research fellow Christos Melidis presented ‘KURE’ at this years BAILAR2016 in New York.
August 2016
Some CogNovo research fellows organised and ran the extremely sucessful summer school "ColLaboratoire".
August 2016
CogNovo fellow Michael Straeubig delivered a talk at DiGRA and a workshop at the Electromagnetic Field.
August 2016
Raluca Briazu and Kathryn B. Francis are presenting at the International Conference on Thinking at Brown University.
August 2016
Ivana Kajić is starting a new position at the Computational Neuroscience Research Group in Waterloo.
July 2016
Eugenia Stamboliev presented her paper on "Münsterberg, Flusser and the Screen Bodies" at a conference about Münsterberg in Leipzig, Germany.
July 2016
Kathryn B. Francis received first prize for outstanding research contribution to the First SEJyD Meeting.
July 2016
Kathryn B. Francis will appear in a TV programme about creativity on 24th July 2016 on Insight TV channel 279.
July 2016
Michael Straeubig presented his paper "How to Perceive the Virtual Image? On the Distinction Between 'Virtual' and 'Real'" at the Transdisciplinary Imaging conference.
July 2016
Two teams composed partly by CogNovians have won awards at Hack the Brain 2016 hackathon.
July 2016
Kathryn B. Francis presents "Moral Muscles in Virtual Landscapes" at SEJyD in Palma (Spain).
July 2016
Pinar Oztop, participated at the Creative Problem Solving Institute Conference (CPSI), in University at Buffalo, New York.
July 2016
Ilaria Torre demonstrated her experiments about implicit measure of trust at the Robotics Day, a public engagement event at Plymouth University.
July 2016
A few CogNovo research fellows will present talks or posters during the Cognition Institute Conference at Plymouth University from 7/7/16 to 8/7/16.
July 2016
Ekosi Eksi, a film created by Christos, Diego, Jacqui, and Klara as part of the CogNovo Scientific Methodologies workshop, is screening at Mergecology.
June 2016
Joana Galvão presented her work developing a video counsellor at the annual meeting of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies in Belfast 14-17th June.
June 2016
Raluca Briazu presented her talk "The role of counterfactual thinking in deceptive communication" at the EASP small group meeting in Aix-en-Provence, France.
June 2016
Mihaela Taranu talks about "Searching for the role of parietal cortex in visual and auditory multi-stability" at ASSC20 in Buenos Aires on 15 Jun 2016.
June 2016
Kathryn B. Francis is presenting "Sensorimotor Personal Force in Moral Decision-Making" at the UK Sensory Motor Conference.
June 2016
Ilaria Torre presented "Behavioural mediation of prosodic cues to implicit judgements of trustworthiness" at the Speech Prosody Conference in Boston.
May 2016
Michael Straeubig gave his talk "Towards Play Design for Machines" at ISEA2016 in Hong Kong.
May 2016
David Bridges presented his work at PS 2016 in Granada.
May 2016
Prizes were awarded during the final CogNovo workshop (Best Poster: Raluca Briazu; Best Collaborator: Frank Loesche; Best Poster (runner-up): Kathryn B. Francis).
May 2016
Ilaria Torre has received two awards, by ISCA and Santander.
April 2016
Chun-Wei presented a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's 23rd annual meeting in New York.
April 2016
Thomas R. Colin has presented an overview of some of his work at the Artificial Intelligence seminar at the University of Alberta (Canada).
April 2016
Klara Łucznik presents her work at the annual conference AISB2016 at the University of Sheffield, UK.
April 2016
Raluca Briazu has been awarded a bursary by the Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPag).
March 2016
Diego S. Maranan has been invited to be a reviewer for the Technical Program Committee for ACM Multimedia 2016
March 2016
The proceedings of last years workshop and conference "Off the Lip 2015" was published recently – with contributions from 11 CogNovians
March 2016
Mihaela Taranu presents some results from her TMS study on visual and auditory multistability at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
March 2016
Kathryn B. Francis shows her work on simulated moral actions at the Reasoning and Imagination Lab in Dublin
March 2016
Klara Łucznik presents her work "Between Minds and Bodies" as part of the Trinity Laban Research Degree Programme.
March 2016
Pinar Oztop attended the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) General Assembly & Annual Conference.
March 2016
Vaibhav Tyagi and Frank Loesche have finished the first phase of their collaborative project.
March 2016
Research fellow Agi Haines and supervisor Sue Denham will be presenting at this years Worlding the Brain symposium in Amsterdam between 17/Mar and 19/Mar.
March 2016
Jack McKay Fletcher, Klara Łucznik, Diego S. Maranan, and Michael Straeubig have published papers in the special issue of Technoetic Arts about the Undivided Mind.
February 2016
Christos Melidis' and Davide Marocco's article has just been published at the conference proceeding of SMC 2015.
February 2016
Klara Łucznik will talk about insights about creativity from dance improvisations at the Postgraduate Practice Research Symposium
December 2015
Guy Edmonds was invited by Roger Malina to talk about "The Divorce of Eye and Ear [as] an Accident of the History of Technology"
November 2015
Eugenia Stamboliev contributed to "Flusseriana - An intellectual toolbox"
November 2015
Guy Edmonds' film depicting one of the last flights of the Concorde will be screened at the Cornwall Film Festival
October 2015
Agi Haines was involved in exhibitions and talk shows at the Dutch Design Week 2015
October 2015
Jacqueline Knight's short film 'Knots', inspired by R.D. Laing's book, will be screened at the Cornwall Film Festival
October 2015
Michael Straeubig's and Diego S. Maranan's auditory response to Gerhard Richter exhibition in Plymouth
October 2015
Christos Melidis presented his work at IEEE SMC2015 in Hong Kong on 12/10/2015
October 2015
Four CogNovians, Christopher Germann, Agi Haines, Diego S. Maranan, and Jack McKay Fletcher have published individual podcasts with Roger Malina at Creative Disturbances.
September 2015
Ilaria spent her summer at the ICPhS2015 conference and participated in eNTERFACE2015.
September 2015
Chun-Wei Hsu presented her latest work at the CNP Symposium 2015 in Lisboa.
September 2015
Cognovo and Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellows Kathryn Francis, Raluca Briazu and Mihaela Taranu presented posters at the ESCoP conference in Paphos, Cyrpus.
September 2015
Professor David Kavanagh has secured funding for a NAO robot to extend the work of the CogNovo project "Creative technologies for behaviour change".
August 2015
Raluca Briazu and Chun-Wei Hsu presented at Decepticon 2015: International Conference on Deceptive Behavior in Cambridge on 24-26 August 2015.
August 2015
Francois Lemarchand and Diego S. Maranan present their research at ISEA2015. In addition Diego S. Maranan, Frank Loesche and Susan L Denham introduce CogNovo.
May 2015
"Drones with Desires", a project Agi Haines has worked on, was selected as a winner in the Bio Art + Design Award 2015.
May 2015
Research on trust attributions by Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, and Laurence White are featured in the EPIP4 proceedings.
October 2014
Michael Straeubig's playful locative audio experience "Kling Klang Klong" has been play-tested and showcased at the Playpublik camp and festival!
October 2014
Agi Haines spoke at October’s TEDxMaastricht 2014, about her work on designing the human body.
October 2014
CogNovo Investigators Emma Whittaker and James Brocklehurst have developed an iPhone app to help Plymouth museum recover an important lost index… but they need your help to do it!
September 2014
CogNovo supervisor Jackie Andrade has been on the steering panel for the National Audit Project on Accidental Awareness in General Anaesthesia (AAGA), which presented it's finding's this month
September 2014
CogNovo partner Mona Nasser's blogging and twittering about her research (and love of flying!) has been recognised by British Dental Editors Forum
July 2014
Frank Loesche presents Michael Straeubig's Gardening Guerilla game at the Playful Arts Festival.
July 2014
Ivana Kajic has won The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship and describes her recent visit to Google
June 2014
Vaibhav Tyagi has published research on cognitive load in binumeracy
June 2014
Agi Haines has been selected for an honorary mention by Prix Ars Electronica
June 2014
Agi Haines, CogNovo Research Fellow, will be talking at a special event – Rewiring the Body – as part of the Open City Docs Fest.
February 2014
CogNovo partners, Kin, have designed a smart-phone dress which debuted at London’s Fashion week.
November 2013
Professor Sue Denham, principal investigator for CogNovo, was invited to attend a special meeting at the EU for co-ordinators of Marie-Curie Doctoral training networks.
July 2013
The University’s Cognition Institute is taking the lead in a 4 million Euro project to explore how creative thinking underpins cognitive processes.
July 2013
Applications for 14 prestigious Marie Curie funded Research Fellowships are now being accepted.
July 2013
Demonstrating a strong commitment to CogNovo, Plymouth University has announced it will sponsor a further 12 PhD studentships.