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SCSMI2017 Helsinki

The annual conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) welcomes you to the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 11th – 14th, 2017

SCSMI2017 Helsinki program is under construction and changes are to occur. Meanwhile you may complete your personal information with a photo and some tags, so the other attendees and speakers will get to know more of you and your interests, and vice versa.

Go to registration or check practical information about accommodation etc. at http://scsmi2017.aalto.fi/

Claire Howlin

Goldsmiths University
Ireland

Claire is a doctoral researcher with the media entertainment lab at University College Dublin, with research interests in embodied cognition, the role of aesthetic experience in music interventions, and arousal responses to media entertainment. Having graduated from the music mind and brain program in Goldsmiths university focussing on aesthetic responses in audiovisual contexts, Claire hopes to extend this research into a wellness framework, introducing aesthetic experiences into healthcare settings.

11:00 EEST

SP Mette Hjort. Feel Good Films and Positive Emotions: Film in the Context of Health and Well-Being A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Mette Hjort

11:30 EEST

SP Brendan Rooney, Katalin Balint, Colin Burke, Sharon Chi Tak Lee, Caroline Mantei and Tess O'Leary: The effect of engagement-mode and character eye-gaze on viewers of a virtual reality ﬁlm. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Brendan Rooney

14:00 EEST

SP Alaina Schempp. What’s So Scary About Time? The Temporality of Cinematic Suspense in Horror and Suspense-Thriller Films A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Alaina Schempp

14:30 EEST

SP Bregt Lameris. Colorful Depictions of Disgust in Cinematic Representations A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Bregt Lameris

15:30 EEST

LP Richard Allen: Bollywood poetics A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Richard Allen

11:00 EEST

SP Dirk Eitzen. The “Post-Truth” Phenomenon: Where It Comes From, How It Works, Why it Matters A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Dirk Eitzen

11:30 EEST

SP Colin Burke, Lene Heiselberg, Katalin Balint and Brendan Rooney. Narration alone or accompanied by acted events in a historical documentary: Exploring cognitive effort and emotional arousal using measures of... A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint

13:00 EEST

LP Adriano D'Aloia and Ruggero Eugeni. What time is in? Subjective Perception of Time in the Audiovisual Experience A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Adriano D’Aloia • Ruggero Eugeni

16:00 EEST

SP Stephen Hinde, Tim Smith and Katrin Heimann. Experimental psychology in cinema using mobile technologies. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Dr Stephen J. Hinde

09:30 EEST

LP Torben Grodal. Aesthetics and emotions in animated ﬁlms A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Torben Grodal

10:30 EEST

SP Claire Howlin, Guido Orgs and Staci Vicary. The Search for kinaesthetic empathy: performer acceleration, aesthetic responses and physiological arousal A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Claire Howlin

11:30 EEST

SP Ed Tan and Katalin Bálint. The phenomenology of characterisation. From social cognition of real persons to the construction of ﬁctional human-like ﬁgures in narrative. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Ed Tan

13:00 EEST

LP Todd Berliner: Bursting into Song in the Hollywood Musical A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Todd Berliner SP Katalin Balint, Chantal Schoft and Brendan Rooney. The Effect of Formal Features on Viewers’ Narrative Engagement in Quentin Tarantino’s Violent Scenes A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Brendan Rooney

15:00 EEST

Refreshments Aalto Hallway 3rd floor - Refreshments