 On Tuesday 10th April members of our time lab attended the What's Time? event at Google Digital Garage in Manchester. The event was organised by the Institute of Physics in conjunction with The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) the Manchester Time Lab and Google. The event kicked off with two musicians from RNCM (a piano player and a flautist) playing four very different piece of music. The piano played was the Google Manchester Piano, which displays a different image of Manchester depending on which note is played!  The audience members were asked which piece of music they thought lasted the longest. Dr Michelle Phillips from RNCM then gave a talk about time and music, and the different aspects of a piece of music (and the listener) that can affect the perception of its duration. Following on from this Dr Luke Jones from our time lab gave a talk which was a general introduction to the field of time perception, followed by a Q & A. Lastly Dr Hannah Renshaw from the Institute of Physics gave a talk on the physics of time.  The event also involved experiments that the people could take part in, one experiment was investigating the perception of the duration of different types of music, the other was exploring people's mental imagery for time. We are very grateful to our PhD student Emily Williams for helping out with the experiments in what turned out to be a very busy evening. Many thanks to everyone that attended, the lovely friendly people at Google, and all who organised the event. 
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19/7/2018 06:59:51
If there is one good thing technology had given us, it would have to be the ability to get rid of unnecessary personal meetings from our itinerary which allowed us to give more time to people that matters most. The meetings can be done thru video conferences. It saves a lot of time and still gets the work done. Not having to spend time having to dress up and drive somewhere enables us to give more time to our families. This is the best thing that ever happened in years. It's not even expensive. 24/7/2018 13:21:06
Events that tackles about time are very rare. This is even the first I have discovered that this is possible. And you know what, I find this very interesting since it gives us all the necessary information that we can use in the future. Although, I was not able to fully understand the real reason behind this event, I still feel happy because I have known such event like this. If I will be given the chance to attend an event that discusses the same thing, I will definitely do it. I just hope sooner or later I will be able to see some available conferences or seminars so I can learn some new and interesting information. Leave a Reply. |
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