SCI-LAB contributed at ISOT 2024!

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The SCI-Lab recently participated in the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) in Reykjavik, June 22-26. Jonas Olofsson and William Fredborg delivered oral presentations in the symposium ”Working Memory in the Chemical Senses”. Meanwhile, Nira Cedres, Malina Szychowska, and Samet Albayrak presented their posters, receiving much positive feedback. We were proud to share our findings on human cognition and olfaction with so many wonderful colleagues, and are grateful for the opportunity to discuss both our research and theirs with so many brilliant minds. The lab members also enjoyed Iceland’s rugged beauty, hot springs and culinary offerings (but not the fermented shark).

SCI-lab goes to the ISOT conference in Reykavik

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The SCI-Lab is attending the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) in Reykavik, Iceland, on June 22-26. Five members are representing the lab. Jonas Olofsson and William Fredborg will have oral presentations in the “Working memory in the chemical senses” session, and Nira Cedres, Malina Szychowska and Samet Albayrak will have poster presentations. We are looking forward to see our colleagues in Reykjavik and share our latest research!

Group photo!

Lab visit!

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Sci-Lab is part of the Perception & Psykophysics division of Stockholm university’s Psychology Department.

As part of a visit to the University dignitaries from South African Universities visited our Division to see and try-out our lab resources.

We had a fun time demonstrating our ”toys” and we hope they had a fun time too!

 

Thank you for the visit!

 

 

SCI-lab hosts the Olfactus conference at Stockholm University

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The Olfactus 2023 conference was hosted by the SCI-lab and our colleagues at the Gösta Ekman Laboratory. In this intensive 1-day conference, 43 participants attended. There were 17 talks, mostly by junior researchers and students, on a wide variety of chemical senses research topics. Some pictures from the event are available on the Gösta Ekman Laboratory facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gelstockholm

Jonas will be a keynote speaker at the Pangborn Sensory Symposium this year!

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Jonas Olofsson has been invited as a keynote speaker at the Pangborn Sensory Symposium in Nantes, France (August 20-24).

Pangborn is an academic conference focusing on sensory science and consumer science (www.pangbornsymposium.com).

#Pangborn2023

Documentary on Smell and biographical memory

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We were visited by documentary filmmaker Cosima Dannoritzer, as part of the production of her new project involving smell and memory.

Maria Larsson, head of Perception and Psychophysics, were interviewed for the documentary and SCI-LAB made its contribution to the segment. We hope you willl enjoy the documentary when it is released some time this summer!

We will announce when it is out in a new update.

Media interest for our VR compatible olfactometer!

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Our recently published paper on our inhouse developed handheld olfactometer for use with VR has gained interest from several Swedish media sources.

We have been featured on Swedish TV, newspaper and Radio. Below you can find links to our appearances (Swedish):

SVT, Swedish public television: svt.se and svt.se

TV4 news: tv4play.se

P3 spel, Swedish public Radio: sverigesradio.se

Dagens nyheter, newspaper: dn.se

 

Here you can find our article in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies for more information: A graspable olfactory display for virtual reality

Lab visit from the Ambassador for Japan!

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The Ambassador for Japan in Sweden, Noke Masaki, visited Stockholm University, and was given a tour of the olfactory laboratory and the other sensory laboratories at the Psychology Department. 

Qian Janice Wang visited the Lab and presented her projects!

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This week we had a visit from Dr Qian Janice Wang!

We got to show her the interactive projects we are working on and she demonstrated some of hers. Turns out we are working on some very similar things!

She also presented her work on multisensory perception, with interesting parallels with her expertise in wine tasting.

Demonstration of our Smell training game at the Museum of Technology in Stockholm

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This year’s autumn-break from school was designated ”research break” and the Museum of Technology invited researchers from different fields to present and demonstrate their research.

We attended and demonstrated our Smell training game called Exerscent. The kids, adults and staff took to Exerscent excitedly!