Goodbye Multidisciplinary Column!
In June 2017, we were invited to serve as editors of the newly established column on multidisciplinary aspects of Multimedia. Our major goal back then was to portray a look beyond ‘the big pond’ — multimedia research that is. We set out to establish a multidisciplinary dialogue within the multimedia community and raise awareness for, as ...
Multidisciplinary Column: Lessons Learned from a Multidisciplinary Hands-on Course on Interfaces for Inclusive Music Making
This short article reports on lessons learned from a multidisciplinary hands-on course that I co-taught in the academic winter term 2021/2022. Over the course of the term, I co-advised a group of 4 students who explored designing interfaces for Musiklusion , a project focused on inclusive music making using digital tools. Inclusive participation in music ...
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Odette Scharenborg
The first issue in 2021 features an interview with Alex Thayer, PhD and portrays his view upon interdisciplinarity in both academia and research with implications for our multimedia community.
Multidisciplinary column: the importance of talking to a 12-year old
In 2018, while on a research visit to Bordeaux, I felt it would be good to connect more closely to the local community. As a consequence, colleagues convinced me to join the Femmes & Sciences movement, in which women researchers in STEM proactively did local outreach. My French was conversational, though not stellar. But I thought ...
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Alex Thayer
The first issue in 2021 features an interview with Alex Thayer, PhD and portrays his view upon interdisciplinarity in both academia and research with implications for our multimedia community.
Multidisciplinary Column: Conferences as Career and Community Catalysts
A little over 10 years ago, I chose to pursue a PhD. This meant I chose a professional life in which research publications and their uptake would be seen as major evidence of achievement. For those working in computer science, the major dissemination platforms for such publications are conferences. Given my dual background in music and ...
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Max Mühlhäuser
Could you tell us a bit about your background, and what the road to your current position was? Well, this road is marked by wonderful people who inspired me and sparked my interest in the research fields I pursued. In addition, it is marked by two of my major deficiencies: I cannot stop to investigate the ...
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Andrew Quitmeyer
Could you tell us a bit about your background, and what the road to your current position was? In general, a lot of my background has been motivated by personal independence and trying to find ways to sustain myself. I was a first-generation grad student (which may explain a lot of my skepticism and confusion about ...
Multidisciplinary Community Spotlight: Assistive Augmentation
Emphasizing the importance of neighboring communities for our work in the field of multimedia was one of the primary objectives we set out with when we started this column about a year ago. In past issues, we gave related communities a voice through interviews and personal accounts. For instance, in the third issue of 2017, ...
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Emilia Gómez
Could you tell us a bit about your background, and what the road to your current position was? I have a technical background in engineering (telecommunication engineer specialized in signal processing, PhD in Computer Science), but I also followed formal musical studies at the conservatory since I was a child. So I think I have an ...
Multidisciplinary Column: Inclusion at conferences, my ISMIR experiences
In 2009, I attended my very first international conference. At that time, I recently had graduated for my Master’s degree in Computer Science, and just was starting the road towards a PhD; in parallel, I had also started pursuing my Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the conservatoire. As a computer scientist, I had conducted ...
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Suranga Nanayakkara
Could you tell us a bit about your background, and what the road to your current position was? I was born and raised in Sri Lanka and my mother being an electrical engineer by profession, it always fascinated me to watch her tinkering around with the TV or the radio and other such things. At age ...
