For the inaugural episode, I converse with a good friend and former colleague from the ex)situ research group at the Université Paris-Saclay. Tove is an interdisciplinary researcher working across the fields of human-computer interaction, music and dance technology, and design research. In our conversation Tove gives an overview of her past and recent work, and delves into some of the theoretical underpinnings and future directions of her research that spans music, dance and computer science.

Some links and notes from the podcast:

• We mention NIME, the international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression frequently (website)
• Although we missed talking about it in depth, Tove mentions the musical instrument she designed and built in her master's program at KTH. Here is an article about the instrument, and for the academically minded, there is also a published paper on it.
• Tove's Ph.D. research from working with the dance group performing modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan's works has been published in two different papers - the first around the co-design of scarves embedded with motion sensors, and the second on her process and collection of movement data that she then converted into physical artefacts - a series of ceramic pots computationally modelled from the data.
• Tove's Ph.D. research, and my own postdoctoral research took place in the ex)situ research group, which "explores the limits of human-computer interaction, specifically how extreme users interact with technology in extreme situations." We were both supervised by, and worked closely with researcher/choreographer Sarah Fdili Alaoui, who is now a professor at the Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London.
• We also mention IRCAM (Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique) in Paris, an important centre for music technology research and where Tove will begin postdoctoral work soon.
• Finally, if you are interested to learn more about Tove's work and research, you can visit her LInkedIn page here.