The world expert in multisensory perception on the remarkable ways we can use our senses to lead happier, healthier, richer lives.
Professor Charles Spence is the world expert in multisensory perception and experience design having spent over 20 years researching how people perceive the world around them at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University. He has consulted for many multinational companies, including Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestle, advising on various aspects of multisensory design, packaging, and branding, and has worked with a number of world-leading chefs, mixologists and baristas, including Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adri .
Spence does for the senses what Marie Kondo does for homes
*Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose Knows*
Talks total sense, lots of fun facts, right up there with the best
of the best
*Chris Evans*
An extraordinary compendium of everything you need to know about
how to cope with the hidden sensory overload of modern life,
engagingly told
*Robin Dunbar, author of How Many Friends Does One Person
Need?*
In Sensehacking, Charles Spence offers a whole new twist on what it
means to 'make sense' of the world around us. Drawing on his
renowned expertise in the field of crossmodal science, Professor
Spence shares a wealth of insights and practical tips that will
help you improve your social, cognitive and emotional well-being
through sensory stimulation and management
*Steve Keller, Sonic Strategy Director, Studio Resonate at
Pandora*
Charles Spence draws on his wealth of experience to provide
insights into how our senses are interwoven in every aspect of our
lives. Spence shows how sensehacking - which he defines as 'using
the power of the senses, and sensory stimulation, to help improve
our social, cognitive and emotional well-being' - is all around us.
In addition to practical suggestions for enriching our own lives,
Sensehacking provides unsettling insights into how commercial
interests are manipulating our perceptions and behaviour. This book
will shed light on much that goes unnoticed, and is especially
timely in these pandemic times.
*Roger Kneebone, author of Expert*
Truly accessible, entertaining and informative. On every page there
are ideas to set you thinking and widen your horizons
*Heston Blumenthal, OBE, on Gastrophysics*
Wonderfully curious and thought-provoking . . . brilliant
*Bee Wilson, Guardian, on Gastrophysics*
Popular science at its best
*Daniel Levitin, NYT bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on
Music, on Gastrophysics*
A fascinating read. Given how pervasive technology has become, the
way we relate to our senses could be the most crucial element in
creating environments that are conducive to emotional and cognitive
well-being. The science shows how we should evolve from an
audiovisual dominated world, to one that caters mindfully to all
our senses
*Charles Michel, Chef-in-residence at the Crossmodal Research
Laboratory, University of Oxford*
Charles Spence is the paragon of the transdisciplinary scholar, a
Renaissance man for the digital age. From his base at the
Crossmodal Research Lab at Oxford, Professor Spence moves
comfortably beyond the confines of experimental psychology and
across the disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, design
art and industry, while also crossing or merging the senses.
Sensehacking is a tour de force of the sensory studies literature,
a synthesis without equal. This book contains lots of helpful tips
about how to use your senses to lead a healthier, happier life (and
insights into how designers and marketers are only too happy to
arrange your senses for you in the interests of moving
merchandise), but it above all concerns "getting the sensory
balance right." Rebalancing the senses and diverse sensations
relative to each other is vital to our cognitive, emotional and
social well-being, so do get hacking by reading this book from the
finest and most innovative multisensory (and intersensory) mind of
our times
*David Howes, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto*
Exceedingly appealing . . . promises to make us feel happier,
relaxed, more focused and productive, and improve sleep and
perception
*Vogue*
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