News

August 2024

The BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference 2024 is coming to Swansea! The members of the SING lab are leading and presenting a symposium on "Global Perspectives on Icons, Symbols, and Pictograms: Multimodal Communication and Cognitive Accessibility". See conference programme here (there is still time to register!)

June 2024

Our article titled "The science of beauty: how aesthetics can boost your mood and cognition" was published in The Conversation.

February 2024

Irene run the fourth social prescribing workshop for Oriel Science in Swansea. Oriel Science has been hosting social prescribing events to aid the rehabilitation of brain injury patients. Social prescribing is a way to personalise patients' healthcare, addressing their social and emotional needs by providing group activities that differ from standard healthcare such as surfing, cooking, and educational workshops.

September 2023

The European Conference in Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE) in 2023 is finally coming to the UK, and we organised it here at Swansea!

Photo by Diane Murray (ECCE Secretary)

BPS Cognitive Section Conference 2023: Irene, Cris Izura, and Dan Earnshaw headed to Brighton to present at the BPS Cognitive Psychology Conference https://www.cogsec2022.com/conference.

Photo by a BPS attendee

May 2023

Over the next 12 months we are very proud to be putting on our exhibit "Building a Global Visual Language: Are we Ready?" at the Oriel Science Exhibition Centre in the heart of Swansea.

October 2022

We received funding to the value of £9,956 for our project on 'Understanding the barriers in digital technology engagement in support staff for older adults and people with disabilities'. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Liz Jones (School of Health & Social Sciences), Dr. Fred Boy (School of Business), and two of our partners: People Speak Up and Hafod.

September 2022

The European Conference in Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE) in 2023 is finally coming to the UK, and we're organising here at Swansea in September 2023! More details to follow soon, regarding deadlines for paper submissions. This year ECCE takes place in Germany: http://www.hciv.de/ecce2022/

Irene, Cris Izura, and Dan Earnshaw are heading to Brighton this September to present at the BPS Cognitive Psychology Conference: https://www.cogsec2022.com/conference

August 2022

Irene is now a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) committee ICT/2 "ICT Accessibility".

July 2022

We received a 28k award from the Morgan Advances Studies Institute (MASI) on our project titled Developing of an Accessible, Diverse and Inclusive Digital Visual Language. Thank you MASI!!! We’ll be updating our project blog.

We are looking to recruit for PhD student interested in visual cognition, including the learning and understanding of icons and symbols, and on the influence of visual aesthetics on behaviour and performance.

May 2022

We were awarded £2,000 for a project on facilitating independent artists to develop methods to connect people in care online. We found that there are significant barriers to adoption and use of digital technology by those facilitating people in care (e.g., personal assistants) to participate in activities online. Read more about it here:

https://digitaleconomy.wales/sidebyside/

November 2019

Best Article Award in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. The award was received for the paper with Charles Leek titled "Surface diagnosticity predicts the high-level representation of regular and irregular object shape in human vision"