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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

Locating Intergenerational Ties, rematriating late-19th-century unpublished photographs of Sámi Women and Children

Employing a decolonial approach inspired by critical museology and Indigenous studies, LIT aims to initiate a visual restitution/rematriation process fostering attention to Sámi people’s experiences during colonial encounters, and to illuminate individual life-stories of women and children photographed by Italian anthropologists Mantegazza and Sommier between 1879 and 1886. It wishes to generate dialogical knowledge of unpublished visual/written materials, enabling Sámi communities of interest to gain access to these scholars’ photographs. In complex socio-historical Indigenous/settler contexts such as Sápmi (the Sámi homeland), Sámi people’s control over their own heritage has proved essential to processes of cultural and ethnopolitical self-determination. Part of the Sámi visual heritage consists of photographs taken - often through mild violence and coercion - by academics engaged in physical anthropological practices involving Sámi individuals of all ages and genders. The resulting academic and divulgative publications circulated in Europe for decades, shaping and reinforcing stereotypes of Sámi peoples and cultures. Photos taken in colonial encounters by late-19th/early-20th century scholars to visualize Sámi people’s supposed biological-cultural inferiority (until a few decades ago inaccessible to the Sámi) have become important means of decolonization and empowerment through art and activism. The visual restitution of such photographs is of the utmost importance not only from a cultural heritage perspective but is also considered by Sámi institutions and individuals as an urgent necessity. LIT proposes an innovative approach based on the co-construction of knowledge and with a gender dimension. I shall reconstruct life stories of women and children photographed by Italian ethnologists, locating their descendants and returning their photographs to their communities. LIT would benefit my career, making me a leading researcher in Sami Studies and museology.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Smart and Sustainable Host UniverCities: leveraging city-university interactions to further the twin green and digital transition

SUNSET aims to develop innovative research and training capacity around city-university interactions driving the EU’s green and digital transition. This twin transition is a defining element of the current EU policy agenda towards achieving climate neutrality and sustainable growth. The European Commission considers cities to be frontrunners in this transition agenda, but their transformational capacity and resilience crucially depends on the presence of agile and high-performing urban innovation ecosystems. SUNSET brings together (1) prominent researchers working in diverse geographical and disciplinary settings at leading universities (N=6) with (2) partners (N=16) from city governments (often participating in the Cities Mission to achieve climate neutrality by 2030), innovation companies, research institutes and civil society organizations to analyze and foster the performance of these urban innovation ecosystems: drawing on a purposeful range of interdisciplinary, international, and intersectoral exchanges, the Doctoral Network will investigate whether and how universities can successfully become key drivers of the twin transition in cities via their role as innovation partners, the implementation of campus living labs, and as architects of decision-making in governance ecosystems. Through a tailored combination of network-wide training events and academic and non-academic secondments, the SUNSET Doctoral Network will train a new generation of researchers to become future urban innovation ecosystem leaders in the pursuit of the twin green and digital transition. The findings will lead to practical guidelines regarding the design and implementation of living labs for university and city management, tailored strategies to foster more inclusive and diverse urban ecosystems, and diverse forms of scientific outreach and dissemination.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


EXPRESS 2 SPECIFY AND PROTECT THE EU SOCIAL CONTRACT (EXPRESS2)

EXPRESS2 is a project that addresses from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-sectional perspective, the growing demand for a new, more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable social contract in the EU. To achieve this, the project will work to create a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft that will be submitted to inhabitants, Member States and EU institutions that will have the possibility to participate and decide upon the conditions, rights, and obligations to be binding. The goal is to strengthen the EU agreement of association by promoting social dialogue, civic engagement, and integration. An express draft shall be achieved by means of policy dialogue, campaign implementation, collaborative workshops, advocacy planning, and innovative offline and online formats and tools to create spaces for dialogue. To this end, EXPRESS2 will involve EU policymakers and institutions throughout the project to obtain a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft. 
The project will also focus on identifying and analyzing disruptive elements of the social contract, such as insecurity, populism, climate change, mistrust in institutions, gender discrimination, digitalisation and pandemics. The analysis of these stressors includes both individualised and cross-sectional approaches to cover the plausible relation of multiple disruptors, their concatenation or the “trigger” effect of a disruptive phenomenon to another. By understanding these disruptive elements and their effects on the social contract, the project will propose concrete measures to ironclad the social contract and it will provide relevant information to protect it from actual and potential disruptions thus we conceive social contracts as incomplete theorised agreements and living documents. In addition to academic, policy, and socio-economic outcomes, EXPRESS2 will propose recommendations to strengthen the social contract's resilience and capacity for further development.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

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Sustainability is a general concept that relates to the ability of humankind to continue to grow and thrive on a planet with limited resources. Focusing on built infrastructure can narrow the scope of sustainability research to a degree, but it is still a  formidably broad theme. No single research project can address all of the thematic focus areas relevant for understanding regional built infrastructure sustainability. Individual research projects, can, however, investigate one or more of these thematic areas in detail and thereby take us one step further in solving the sustainability puzzle. That is our aim in establishing this collaboration with the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington (USA). The collaboration we  are proposing focuses on regional climate change and built infrastructure sustainability in a high-latitude maritime continental climate regime. The novelty of this collaboration is that we are establishing ties with a prestigious university located in a  region that is climatologically, geographically and socio-economically similar to Norway. The university is located in a city, Seattle, with a demonstrated and leading edge commitment to sustainability. We are collaborating with leading professors who ar e acknowledged experts in key fields that are complementary to the participants at the Dept. of Civil and Transport Engineering at NTNU in looking at urban and regional scale climate change impacts. In this collaboration we will not be focusing on climate  change research per se, but on the application of climate change research results to built infrastructure engineering. Our collaboration aims at bridging the gap between the results from the basic science investigations and information that is useful for  making real life decisions about built infrastructure.

NA - NTNU/UW collaboration on regional climate change and built infrastructure sustainability

Målet med prosjektet er å oppgradere fourMs-lab'en ved Universitetet i Oslo med nye teknologier for å studere menneskelig bevegelse og fysiologi. Systemene som skal kjøpes inn vil muliggjøre mye mer nøyaktige målinger enn tidligere. Det vil også være mulig å kombinere bevegelsessporing med blikksporing og målinger av pust, puls og muskelspenning.

The fourMs Lab (Music, Mind, Motion, Machines) is a world-class infrastructure for studies of human movement and physiology in an immersive multimedia environment. It is primarily used to study music-related body movement, music performance, and music psychology. It has also increasingly been used for linguistics, dance, sports, and well-being in recent years. The lab is central to the activities of the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, which has been a Norwegian Centre of Excellence since 2017. 

Funding is sought for upgrading the primary motion capture system of the lab. The original motion capture system from Qualisys was purchased in 2009, and the more than 10-year old equipment is in dire need of replacement. Newer motion capture systems have much better spatial and temporal resolution than the current setup, allowing for higher accuracy and precision recording. We have recently also experienced several failures and errors related to the age of electronics in the old system. This has caused downtime in the lab when different system parts have had to be sent for repair. There is a need to upgrade the primary hardware. 

Over the years, we have seen a growing interest in combining motion capture with other types of measurements, including physiological sensing (muscle tension, respiration, heart rate) and eye-tracking. We, therefore, also apply for purchasing some add-on systems, which would allow for more complex data collection. Finally, we will need to integrate the new and old systems to synchronize the collected data properly. 

All in all, these upgrades and new investments are necessary for the fourMs Lab to continue to be a state-of-the-art research facility for the years to come. If funded, it will further strengthen the University of Oslo as a world-leading institution for empirical music research, and open for even more interdisciplinary and international collaboration.

fourMs Lab Upgrade

AMBIENT skal undersøke hvordan rytmer påvirker mennesker. En tikkende klokke er et eksempel på en lydlig rytme. Et blinkende lys er en visuell rytme. Slike lydlige og visuelle rytmer kan blandes til audiovisuelle rytmer i et rom. Hypotesen er at slike audiovisuelle rytmer påvirker folk, bevisst eller ubevisst. Dette vil først bli studert gjennom månedslange observasjonsstudier av folk som jobber alene på kontor. Vi skal måle de audiovisuelle rytmene og sammenligne disse med både kvalitative og kvantitative data fra deltagerne. Deretter skal vi studere hvordan folk samarbeider gjennom nettbaserte verktøy. Målet er å utvikle en helhetlig teori om audiovisuelle og spatiotemporale rytmer. Til slutt skal vi utforske interaktive systemer for å gjenskape audiovisuelle rytmer i et nettbasert klasserom.

Much focus has been devoted to understanding the "foreground" of human activities: things we say, actions we do, sounds we hear. From such a perspective, various types of background elements are considered "noise", for example, the sound of a ventilation system in an office, the footsteps of people in a corridor, or people's fidgeting in a classroom. Such elements are usually not at the forefront of our attention, but they still constitute an important part of the experienced ambience of an environment.

AMBIENT will investigate such environmental "noise", how it influences people's bodily behaviour, and how people feel about such rhythms in an environment. This will be done by studying how different auditory and visual stimuli combine to create rhythms in various settings. The hypothesis is that various types of rhythms influence people's bodily behaviour through principles of entrainment, that is, the process by which independent rhythmical systems interact with each other.

AMBIENT will develop a coherent theory of the rhythms of in-door environments, informed by three sets of case studies: 

- WP2: observations of people working alone in their offices
- WP3: observations of people working together in a physical-virtual shared office 
- WP4: experiments with an interactive ambience system in a telematic classroom

The aim is to work towards a greater understanding of (a) the rhythms of in-door environments, (b) how people interact with such rhythms, and (c) how such rhythms can be captured and (re)created in a different environment. The development of a coherent theory of the audiovisual and spatiotemporal nature of rhythm may lead to scientific impact in a number of related disciplines. The knowledge gained about people's everyday experiences may lead to societal impact on the design of in-door environments, use of background music, and better systems for telecommunication.

AMBIENT: Bodily Entrainment to Audiovisual Rhythms

RITPART er et partnerskapsprosjekt mellom RITMO Senter for tverrfaglig forskning på rytme, tid og bevegelse ved Universitetet i Oslo og tre verdensledende forskningsmiljøer ved University of California, Berkeley (USA), McGill University (Canada) og Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan). Partnerne komplementerer og styrker RITMO innen spesifikke forskningsmetoder, særlig hjernemåling, bevegelsessporing og blikksporing. Disse metodene er sentrale for å nå målene til RITMO, nemlig å avdekke de grunnleggende kognitive mekanismene knyttet til menneskelig rytme. Mange av de planlagte aktivitetene ble avlyst på grunn av pandemien, men vi har allikevel klart å organisere fem internasjonale seminarer: bevegelsessporing (november 2018), EEG-analyse (juni 2019), intrakranial EEG (oktober 2019), pupillometri (april 2022) og rytme (mai 2022). Prosjektet har finansiert flere forskningsbesøk (både inngående og utgående) mellom Oslo og de tre partnerinstitusjonene og lagt til rette for nettbasert interaksjon mellom vitenskapelige assistenter ved partnerinstitusjonene under pandemien. Prosjektet har ledet til en rekke felles publikasjoner, noen datasett og åpent tilgjengelig programvare. Noe av det mest synlige som står igjen etter prosjektet er to nettbaserte kurs på FutureLearn-plattformen. “Motion Capture: The art of studying complex human activity” ble lansert i januar 2022 og “Pupillometry - The eyes are windows to the soul“ vil lanseres høsten 2022.

RITPART is affiliated with RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, a Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo.

RITPART will continue and expand long-term relationships with three world-leading research groups, each connected to the three core branches of RITMO (musicology, psychology and informatics):

(1) The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
(2) Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University, Canada
(3) Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

The partners have been chosen to complement and strengthen three methodological approaches that are of high importance to the success of RITMO: neuroimaging (Berkeley), motion capture (McGill) and eye tracking (Toyohashi). These methods are key to reaching the vision behind RITMO, namely to reveal the basic cognitive mechanism(s) underlying human rhythm, using music, motion and audiovisual media as empirical points of departure. The research will be based on the combined perspectives of the humanities, cognitive neuroscience, social sciences and informatics, including a large variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. 

RITPART will reach its objectives through six work packages:

- WP1: Kick-off seminar in Oslo
- WP2: Intensive research training courses
- WP3: Short-term scientific missions between partners
- WP4: Cooperation on development of educational tools
- WP5: Knowledge exchange for support staff
- WP6: Project administration

These strategies will strengthen the general level of internationalization in RITMO and will help us develop into a truly world-leading hub for research and research education in the fields in question.

International Partnerships for RITMO Centre of Excellence

Mennesker har en grunnleggende evne til å oppleve og skape rytme. Denne evnen er viktig for å gi mening til hendelser som utspiller seg i tid. Rytme er også en del av menneskelig biologi, fra svingninger i nervesystemet til pust, puls og lengre kroppslige sykluser. Disse ulike nivåene av menneskelig rytme er i komplekst samspill med andre biologiske, kulturelle og mekaniske rytmer i våre omgivelser.

RITMOs visjon er å utvide vår forståelse av rytme som en grunnleggende egenskap i menneskelivet. Vi genererer ny kunnskap om hva som ligger til grunn for menneskers rytme- og tidsopplevelse. Utgangspunktet er at den menneskelige rytmesansen henger sammen med grunnleggende perseptuelle og kognitive mekanismer som i seg selv er rytmiske.

Senteret er tverrfaglig og kombinerer perspektiver fra musikk- og mediestudier, filosofi og estetikk, kognitiv nevropsykologi og informatikk. Vi bruker avanserte metoder for bevegelses- og blikksporing, måling av fysiologiske signaler og hjerneaktivitet, og maskinlæring og robotikk.

Etter seks år ser vi en økende grad av tverrfaglige samarbeid innad i senteret. Antallet artikler som er samskrevet av forskere fra forskjellige disipliner øker og stadig flere prosjekter kombinerer metoder på ulike måter.

I 2023 publiserte RITMO-forskere 1 bok,  21 bokkapitler, 48 tidsskriftsartikler og holdt mer enn 100 konferansepresentasjoner rundt omkring i verden. Syv RITMO-stipendiater disputerte i løpet av året. RITMO-forskere var også involvert i en rekke vitenskapelige og kunstneriske formidlingsaktiviteter. Mer enn 800 deltakere fra hele verden har fulgt RITMOs nye åpne nettkurs “Pupillometry – The Eye as a Window into the Mind” på FutureLearn-plattformen.

Rhythm is omnipresent in human life, as we walk, talk, dance and play; as we tell stories about our past; and as we predict the future. Rhythm is also central to human biology, from the micro-oscillations of our nervous system to our heartbeats, breathing patterns and longer chronobiological cycles (or biorhythms). As such, it is a key aspect of human action and perception that is in complex interplay with the various cultural, biological and mechanical rhythms of the world. 
  The vision behind RITMO is to reveal the basic cognitive mechanism(s) underlying human rhythm, using music, motion and audiovisual media as empirical points of departure. No other interdisciplinary research environment has focused solely on rhythm and its direct and indirect impacts before. Given the fundamental role of rhythm in human life, such an endeavour is long overdue. 
  RITMO will undertake research on rhythm in human action and perception, and on the aesthetic and cultural 'texts' that such processes elicit. This venture will benefit from the combined perspectives of the humanities, cognitive neuroscience, social sciences and informatics. Now is the right time to establish such a centre, because we can finally explore some of the larger questions of the humanities via state-of-the-art technologies for motion capture, neuroimaging, pupillometry and robotics. Such a research strategy is as novel as it is essential to any engagement with the impact of human rhythm. RITMO will generate groundbreaking knowledge about the structuring and understanding of the temporal dimensions of human life. As such, it will change how we view human cognition and supply a cornerstone for the future exploitation of rhythm in applications for well-being and rehabilitation.

RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

Hvordan og hvorfor beveger vi oss til musikk? Dette har vært et viktig musikkvitenskapelig spørsmål de siste årene. Tidligere forskning har fokusert på relativt store kroppsbevegelser, slik som dansing. MICRO-prosjektet har undersøkt hvordan musikk påvirker menneskelige mikrobevegelser, de ørsmå bevegelsene som kan observeres når man forsøker å stå stille. Selv om slike mikrobevegelser knapt er synlige, kan de måles. Gjennom prosjektet har vi gjennomført årlige Norgesmesterskap i stillstand for å samle data. Her inviterte vi deltagere til bevegelseslab'en og målte hvor mye (eller lite) de beveget seg når de sto stille, med og uten musikk. Dataene ble analysert med både kvalitative og kvantiative metoder. Vi fant blant annet at elektronisk dansemusikk gjør at folk beveger seg litt mer enn for andre musikksjangre. Vi fant også at folk flest beveger seg mer når de hører på musikk med hodetelefoner enn høyttalere. Data fra prosjektet har blitt gjort åpent tilgjengelig i Oslo stillstandsdatabase. De vitenskapelige resultatene fra prosjektet har blitt brukt som utgangspunkt for kunstnerisk eksperimentering. Vi har spilt flere konserter basert på lydlig mikrointeraksjon med muskelarmbånd. Vi har også utviklet flere installasjoner med selvspillende gitarer.  Disse installasjonene utforsket "omvendt" interaksjon. Jo stillere man står, jo kraftigere spiller gitarene. MICRO-prosjektet har bidratt til å forstå mer av en "usynlig" del av menneskelig aktivitet.

This project seeks to investigate the close couplings between musical sound and human bodily micromotion. Micromotion is here used to describe the smallest motion that we are able to produce and experience, typically at a rate smaller than 10 mm/s. The last decades have seen an increased focus on the role of the human body in both the performance and the perception of music. Up to now, however, the micro-level of these experiences has received little attention. This project will investigate music-related micromotion of people experiencing music (perceivers), with an aim of contributing to:

- knowledge about how musical sound influences human motion at the micro-level. This will be based on literature studies, theoretical modelling, and a longitudinal observational study as well as three large-scale experiments of sound-motion relationships.

- a large, annotated and metadata-rich database of the micromotion recordings mentioned above. The database will be central to the current project, and will also be made available for future research in the field. 

- conceptual models and software tools for using micromotion to control musical sound in computer-based systems. Such musical microinteraction can be used for music performance or production, or for "active listening".

The project will be based on recent theories of embodied music cognition, combining musical phenomenology with new models from cognitive neuroscience. Methodologically, the project will span widely, from introspection and discussion in small groups to statistical analysis of motion capture recordings and development of new interactive music systems.

Human Bodily Micromotion in Music Perception and Interaction

NIME 2011 - 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

NIME2011 is an interdisciplinary conference gathering 200-500 participants from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design. 

The conference is open to both scientific and artistic presentations. Par ticipants come from a number of different backgrounds and disciplines, including researchers (musicology, computer science, interaction design, etc.), artists (musicians, composers, dancers, etc.) and developers (self-employed and industrial). The common  denominator is the mutual interest in new approaches to music and technology. 

The conference is organised by, and will be located at, the University of Oslo (Depts. of Musicology and Informatics) and the Norwegian Academy of Music. The program is split  into three categories: 

- scientific part (paper presentations, posters, demonstrations and panel sessions)
- artistic part (evening concerts, club performances and installations) 
- fringe events (workshops, seminars, excursions, guest lectures, exhibit ions and outreach activities)

0 projects

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

fourMs Lab Upgrade

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2030

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

AMBIENT: Bodily Entrainment to Audiovisual Rhythms

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research

International Partnerships for RITMO Centre of Excellence

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

Awarded: NOK 140.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2027

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Human Bodily Micromotion in Music Perception and Interaction

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

NIME 2011 - 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

NIME 2011 - 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo