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[C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online - Talk by Dr Andy Woods

Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event!

Tues 27th Oct, 4:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology


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We are at the cusp of some far-reaching technological advances that will be of tremendous benefit to sensory research. Within a few short years we will be able to test thousands of people from any demographic with 'connected' technology every bit as good as we use in our labs today — indeed more so. Here, Dr Woods discusses on-web versus in-lab, predicted technological advances and issues with online research.


Dr. Andy Woods received his PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, in Multisensory Psychology and have subsequ
ently postdoc'd in Bangor (Wales) and later in Manchester (England). He also spent 4 years as a research scientist working for industry in the Netherlands (Unilever R&D). His research remains primarily focused in the field of multisensory psychology. For the past 6 years he has been developing the 'Xperiment' software package, which lets scientists conduct research interchangeably on the internet, on the phone/pad through Xperiment apps, or in the lab.

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Psychology and Neuroscience Applications Society

The junction where psychology and neuroscience research meets action and innovation.

PsyNAppS aims to disseminate information about what you can do with your psychology or neuroscience degree and research. We are here to tell you everything Freud hasn't. We want to show you how psychology and neuroscience can be applied practically to a variety of industries.

Wednesday at 13.00 in the Wolfson Building. Lecture Theatre A.
We will have Jubin Chheda, one of our senior Developers coming down to talk through Derivative Trading Algorithms. 
We will be providing some food beforehand as well!
The details can be found here http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/1460.html
On October 27th, students from 7 of the top UK universities will simultaneously compete in a live coding competition for the UK CodeCon Cup! Winners will be taken to London for the Global CodeCon Competition against the top performers in the United States.
Competing universities are Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Bristol and Southampton. Leaderboards will showcase the top performers as the competition progresses, to see a live update on who is taking the win. Food, beers, cool prizes, swag, and bragging rights will be had!
Date: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Time: 6.30pm-9:30pm
Location: Various On-Campus Locations (see event link for more details)
Register for the event or get more information on the schedule and instructions here: https://Bloomberg-uk-codecon.eventbrite.co.uk
There are limited spaces, so please act quickly if you intend to compete! Kind regards,
Bloomberg Campus Team
Cameron Alsop
President - Oxford University Computer Society