ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

The Institute on Multimodality provides a consolidated perspective on the theoretical, methodological, and practical understanding of multimodality research. The institute will broadly –through its multidisciplinary faculty and technical programme– present an all encompassing and outward-looking view of the emerging discipline of multimodality research at the interface of Minds, Media, and Technology. Here, the scientific agenda of the institute will encompass the relationships between multimodality studies across areas such as cognition, artificial intelligence, communications and media, data science, visuo-auditory media, and interaction studies.

The institute hosts an invited faculty delivering lectures, intensive tutorials, and keynotes; opportunities also exist for young researchers to position ongoing / early stage research, discuss, and network with institute faculty and participants.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR RESEARCH STUDENTS    /    Generous scholarships are available to fully support participation. All eligible and accepted student participants will be awarded a scholarship.

Confluence

The institute offers a novel interdisciplinary view of recent advances centralising multimodality research from diverse viewpoints, including:

  • artificial intelligence - machine learning
  • cognition - media reception
  • multimodal interaction - semiotics
  • media and communications
  • data science - media - practice
One of the central agenda of the institute pertains to dissemination; through a summer school, for instance, this will be achieved through focussed lectures and tutorial sessions devoted to the topic under consideration. The Institute on Multimodality features the following:

  • Dissemination Event: Summer School + Doctoral Colloquium (consisting of keynotes, lectures, tutorials)
  • Public Event, colocated as an informal evening session
  • Workshop of ZiF Research Group on ``Multimodal Rhetoric in Online Media Communications''

Minds.  Media.  Technology.

The institute will -through its multidisciplinary faculty and technical programme- present a comprehensive and outward-looking view of multimodality research at the interface of Minds, Media, and Technology.

Through a confluence of perspectives from Minds, Media, and Technology, the institute will position and enable an understanding of the manner in which multimodality shapes the socio-semiotic interpretation and propagation of interactional, communicative, and collaborative acts/artefacts in everyday life and work.

The scientific agenda of the institute will explicate the relationships between multimodality studies across areas such as cognition, artificial intelligence, visuo-auditory media, and interaction studies, particularly highlighting the significance of multimodality research towards the design and engineering of next-generation digital technologies.

Lectures cover the full spectrum of research areas within the scope of the institute, encompassing the theoretical and methodological aspects of multimodality.

Tutorials cover specific topics in focus, also addressed in the lectures, with significant ``hands-on'' detail and demonstration from the viewpoint of practice and application.

Keynotes present a high-level view and summary of key research and application areas in scope of the institute.



The panel discussion will address emerging and outward looking questions relevant to Multimodality Research, its applicatitons, and their significance towards the design and engineering of next-generation digital technologies

The doctoral colloquium is an opportunity primarily (but not exclusively) for early stage doctoral researchers to present ongoing / planned work, and receive feedback from institute faculty and participants. On a case-by-case basis, the colloquium is generally open for all early career researchers desirous of discussing a research outlook.

Social events are planned during the insitute. Furthermore, the institute is hosted with integrated board facilities thereby offering ample opportunity to interact socially and network during the time-frame of the institute.



The Institute on Multimodality is also part of the Multimodality.  Cognition.  Society Intiatiave, closely synergising with the Training School on ``Representation Mediated Multimodality''. Details available via: www