April 24-26, we are happy to present a CCL symposium at the Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas museum) here in Lund. Registration, information and a preliminary programme can be found at delegia.com/CCL_symposium. Keynote speakers and preliminary titles of their talks: Linda Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA …
Continue ReadingThe Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences is made up of decision-makers and experts from business and industry, academia and public administration. Within the Academy is the collective knowledge and experience of close to 1,300 members divided up into 12 areas of expertise. There are also more than 200 companies …
Continue ReadingRoger Johansson, Jana Holsanova and Viveka Lyberg Åhlander received a project grant from FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) for a three-years multidisciplinary project ”How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events”. The theoretical aim of the project is to gain a …
Continue ReadingCCL researcher Annika Andersson, now a senior lecturer at Linné University in Växjö, is now a blogger at Swedish Research Council magazine Curie. Read an interview with Annika here. The article and the blogs linked below are in Swedish. Blir man smartare av att vara flerspråkig? Hur man blir en …
Continue ReadingCongratulations, Zahra Gharaee, who successfully defended her thesis ‘Action in Mind: A Neural Network Approach to Action Recognition and Segmentation’ on April 27. Professor Angelo Cangelosi gave the audience and the examination commitee a nice presentation of Zahras’ work. Zahra’s PhD studentship was funded by a EU grant closely connected …
Continue ReadingCongratulations Agneta, Magnus and Annika!! The Magical Garden – Supporting Early Mathematics for Preschoolers with different Linguistic Backgrounds The proposed project aims to support development of number sense – the conceptual understanding of numbers – in the increasingly larger population of native speaking Arabic preschoolers with Swedish as a second …
Continue ReadingMagnus Haake and Agneta Gulz received a grant from Skolforskningsinstitutet together with colleagues at Stockholm University for the project “Digital tools to support learning and formative feedback in the context of early skills in mathematics”. Yet another exciting and fruitful collaboration in CCL! Congratulations!
Continue ReadingJana Holsanova presented research on audio description at the Book Fair in Gothenburg. Keywords: audio description, cognition and communication, language and images, multimodality, relevance, mental imagery Audio description is a means to increase accessibility for people with visual impairment and blindness. Audio describers give verbal descriptions of visual scenes in …
Continue ReadingPeter Gärdenfors (LUCS) announces The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017.
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