{"id":961,"date":"2025-01-03T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikewinters.io\/?page_id=961"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:24:59","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikewinters.io\/?page_id=961","title":{"rendered":"Invited Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enjoy giving public talks about research, technology, sound, and human experience. Over the years, I have spoken with students, researchers, engineers, musicians, designers, and general audiences about sonification, brain-computer interfaces, affective computing, wearable devices, mixed reality, and the role of sound in making complex information more understandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My talks often bring together scientific research and musical thinking. As both a researcher and musician, I try to make technical ideas clear, engaging, and memorable, especially for people encountering a topic for the first time. Whether I am discussing neurophysiological signals, auditory display, empathy, or new interaction techniques, my goal is to help audiences hear, feel, and understand what the work makes possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Talk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite talks is <strong>\u201cSonification of Social, Affective, and Neurophysiological Signals,\u201d<\/strong> which I gave for the HCC Colloquium while at Indiana University. The talk brings together several threads of my work: using sound to represent data, designing auditory experiences for social and emotional information, and exploring how physiological signals can shape new forms of interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonification of Social, Affective and Neurophysiological Signals\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LAwykdUr4n0?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of my favorite talks was &#8220;Sonification of Social, Affective and Neurophysiological Signals,&#8221; a talk I gave for the HCC colloquia, while I was at Indiana University:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous Invited Talks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Venue<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Multimodal Neurophysiological Interfaces in Commercial Head-Worn Devices<\/td><td>Microsoft Research<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bain-Computer Instruments for Learning &amp; Empathy<\/td><td>GT Center for 21st Century Universities<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>BCIs for Mixed Reality<\/td><td>3rd EU RHUMBO Training School<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Expressions of Analytical Minds<\/td><td>GT School of Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Approaches to Empathic Auditory Design<\/td><td>SNAP Research<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Brain-Computer Interfacing with Amatria<\/td><td>IU Intelligent Systems Engineering<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification as Music Technology<\/td><td>Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Meaning &amp; Methods: The Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP)<\/td><td>IU Synchrony Group<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification for Socio-Affective Signal Sharing<\/td><td>Insitute for Communication Research<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Design Thinking for Sonic Interaction<\/td><td>Collaborative Design (GaTech)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Effects of Hearing Other\u2019s Heartbeats on Heartrate<\/td><td>Socioneural Physiology Lab<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>A Physiological Role for Empathy in the Act of Music Listening?<\/td><td>OSU Chronic Brain Injury Group<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Compositional Possibilities of Data-Driven Sound<\/td><td>Music Department, Emory University<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Collaborative Design and Evaluation for Interactive Physics Simulations<\/td><td>ICAD 2018<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>An Introduction to Sonification<\/td><td>Emory Chalk Talks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification for Science and Beyond<\/td><td>CoW Physics Colloquium Series<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Disinformation and Alternative Media<\/td><td>Science for the People Atlanta<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>New Instruments, Interfaces and Robotic Musicians<\/td><td>Moogfest 2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Brainwaves and Music<\/td><td>Moogfest 2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification Design for Science Education<\/td><td>ATLAS Institute, CU Boulder<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Research Ethics in Music Technology<\/td><td>Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification of Emotion<\/td><td>Creative Disturbance<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification in Music Information Retrieval<\/td><td>Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sonification, Emotion, and Music<\/td><td>Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talk Topics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also happy to adapt many of these talks for new audiences. Topics I can speak about include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sonification and auditory display<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brain-computer interfaces and mixed reality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wearable and head-worn interaction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Affective computing and biometric feedback<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound, empathy, and social connection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Music technology and creative research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accessible science education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research ethics in emerging technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you are interested in inviting me to speak, teach, or lead a discussion, feel free to reach out. I enjoy adapting talks for academic, industry, student, and public audiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy giving public talks about research, technology, sound, and human experience. 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