Emma Frid is a researcher and engineer focused on music and audio technology, accessibility, and multimodal interface design. She received her PhD in Sound and Music Computing from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2020, with a thesis entitled "Diverse Sounds – Enabling Inclusive Sonic Interaction" supervised by Prof. Roberto Bresin. Emma is the author of the first comprehensive review of Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs) and is an IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC). Before joining Université Paris 8, she conducted research at IRCAM STMS Lab (Paris), Sound and Music Computing Group (KTH, Stockholm), Adobe Research (San Francisco), and IDMIL Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (McGill, Montréal). She also has ten years of experience teaching audio programming, sound in interaction, multimodal interface design, and haptics.

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Publications

Book Chapters

Frid, E. (2023). Musical Robots : Overview And Methods For Evaluation. In Sound And Robotics. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. Read chapter

Frid, E., & Falkenberg, K. (2020). Designing And Reporting Research On Sound Design And Music For Health – Methods And Frameworks For Impact. In Doing Research In Sound Design (pp. 125-150). Focal Press. Read chapter

Articles

Frid, E., Falkenberg, K., Agres, K., & Lucas, A. (2024). Editorial : New Advances And Novel Applications Of Music Technologies For Health, Well-being, And Inclusion. Frontiers in Computer Science, 6. Read article

Lindetorp, H., Svahn, M., Hölling, J., Falkenberg, K., & Frid, E. (2023). Collaborative Music-Making : Special Educational Needs School Assistants As Facilitators In Performances With Accessible Digital Musical Instruments. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5. Read article

Spiro, N., Sanfilippo, K. R., [...], & Frid, E. (2023). Perspectives On Musical Care Throughout The Life Course : Introducing The Musical Care International Network. Music and Science, 6, 1-18. Read article

Frid, E., Panariello, C., & Núñez-Pacheco, C. (2022). Customizing And Evaluating Accessible Multisensory Music Experiences With Pre-Verbal Children : A Case Study On The Perception Of Musical Haptics Using Participatory Design With Proxies. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 6(7), 55. Read article

Frid, E. (2021). The Gender Gap And The Computer Music Narrative – On The Under-Representation Of Women At Computer Music Conferences. Array, the International Computer Music Association Journal, 1, 43-49. Read article

Frid, E., & Bresin, R. (2021). Perceptual Evaluation Of Blended Sonification Of Mechanical Robot Sounds Produced By Emotionally Expressive Gestures : Augmenting Consequential Sounds To Improve Non-Verbal Robot Communication. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14(2), 357-372. Read article

Bresin, R., Mancini, M., Elblaus, L. E., & Frid, E. (2020). Sonification Of Self vs. Sonification Of The Other – Differences In The Sonification Of Performed Vs. Observed Simple Hand Movements. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 144, 102500. Read article

Frid, E. (2019). Accessible Digital Musical Instruments – A Review Of Musical Interfaces In Inclusive Music Practice. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 3(3), 57. Read article

Frid, E., Elblaus, L., & Bresin, R. (2019). Interactive Sonification Of A Fluid Dance Movement – An Exploratory Study. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 13(3), 181-189. Read article

Frid, E., Bresin, R., Moll, J., & Sallnäs-Pysander, E. L. (2018). Haptic Feedback Combined With Movement Sonification Using A Friction Sound Improves Task Performance In A Virtual Throwing Task. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 13(4), 279-290. Read article

Frid, E., Bresin, R., Elblaus, L., & Alborno, P. (2016). Interactive Sonification Of Spontaneous Movement Of Children : Cross-Modal Mapping And The Perception Of Body Movement Qualities Through Sound. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 521. Read article

Conference Papers

Mandanici, M., Partesotti, E., Frid, E., Olivo, M., & Vincent, C. (2025). The Accessible Digital Music Network : Starting, Scope, and Future Development. Proceedings of EAI ArtsIT 2025.

Falkenberg, K., Ljungdahl Eriksson, M., Frid, E., & Otterbring, T. (2024). Is Generative AI the Final Solution to In-Store Music, or Over-Engineering that Scares Customers ? Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference. [Workshop abstract]

Svahn, M., Hölling, J., Lindetorp, H., Frid, E., & Falkenberg, K. (2023). Collaborative Music-Making with Special Education Needs Students and Their Assistants : A Study on Music Playing among Preverbal Individuals with the Funki Instruments. Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) Conference. [Extended abstract] Read abstract

Panariello, C., & Frid, E. (2023). SuperOM : A SuperCollider Class to Generate Music Scores in OpenMusic. Proceedings of the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR). Read paper

Frid, E., Pauletto, S., Bouvier, B., & Fraticelli, M. (2023). A Dual-Task Experimental Methodology for Exploration of Saliency of Auditory Notifications in a Retail Soundscape. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD). [Extended abstract] Read paper 

Núñez-Pacheco, C., & Frid, E. (2023). Sharing Earthquake Narratives : Making Space for Others in Our Autobiographical Design Process. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Read paper

Frid, E., & Panariello, C. (2022). Haptic Music Players for Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) – Exploring Different Modes of Interaction for Felt Sound. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA). Read paper

Ljungdahl Eriksson, M., Otterbring, T., Frid, E., & Falkenberg, K. (2022). Sounds and Satisfaction : A Novel Conceptualization of the Soundscape in Sales and Service Settings. Proceedings of the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference (NRWC) [Extended abstract]

Stojanovski, T., Zhang, H., Frid, E., Chattre, K., Peters, C., Samuels, I., Sanders, P., Parthanen, J., & Lefosse, D. (2021). Rethinking Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) – From Generative Algorithms and Architectural Intelligence to Environmental Design and Ambient Intelligence. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) Futures Conference. Read paper

Frid, E., Ljungdahl Eriksson, M., Otterbring, T., Falkenberg, K., Lidbo, H., & Daunfeldt, S.-O. (2021). On Designing Sounds to Reduce Shoplifting in Retail Environments. Proceedings of the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference (NRWC). [Extended abstract]

Frid, E., & Ilsar, A. (2021). Reimagining (Accessible) Digital Musical Instruments : A Survey on Electronic Music-Making Tools. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Read paper

Frid, E., Orini, M., Martinelli, G., & Chew, E. (2021). Mapping Inter-Cardiovascular Time-Frequency Coherence to Harmonic Tension in Sonification of Ensemble Interaction between a COVID-19 Patient and the Medical Team. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD). Read paper

Falkenberg, K., Frid, E., Ljungdahl Eriksson, M., Otterbring, T., & Daunfeldt, S.-O. (2021). Auditory Notification of Customer Actions in a Virtual Retail Environment : Sound Design, Awareness and Attention. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD). Read paper

Stojanovski, T., Zhang, H., Peters, C., Frid, E., Lefosse, D., & Chattre, K. (2021). Architecture, Urban Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Intersection of Practices and Approaches. Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD). Read paper

Bresin, R., Frid, E., Latupeirissa, A. B., & Panariello, C. (2021). Robust Non-Verbal Expression in Humanoid Robots : New Methods for Augmenting Expressive Movements with Sound. Sound in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Annual Conference for Basic and Applied Human-Robot Interaction Research (HRI). [Extended abstract] Read paper

Falkenberg, K., Lindetorp, H., Latupeirissa, A. B., & Frid, E. (2020). Creating Digital Musical Instruments with and for Children : Including Vocal Sketching as a Method for Engaging in Codesign. Human Technology, 16(3), 348-371. Read paper

Frid, E., & Lindetorp, H. (2020). Haptic Music – Exploring Whole-Body Vibrations and Tactile Sound for a Multisensory Music Installation. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Hansen, K. F., Latupeirissa, A., Frid, E., & Lindetorp, H. (2020). Unproved Methods from the Frontier in the Course Curriculum : A Bidirectional and Mutually Beneficial Research Challenge. INTED2020 Proceedings (pp. 7033-7038). [Extended abstract] Read abstract 

Frid, E., Gomes, C., & Jin, Z. (2020). Music Creation by Example. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Read paper

Panariello, C., Sköld, M., Frid, E., & Bresin, R. (2019). From Vocal Sketching to Sound Models by Means of a Sound-Based Musical Transcription System. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Latupeirissa, A. B., Frid, E., & Bresin, R. (2019). Sonic Characteristics of Robots in Films. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Frid, E., Lindetorp, H., Hansen, K. F., Elblaus, L., & Bresin, R. (2019). Sound Forest – Evaluation of an Accessible Multisensory Music Installation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Read paper

Frid, E. (2018). Accessible Digital Musical Instruments – A Survey of Inclusive Instruments Presented at the NIME, SMC and ICMC Conferences. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Read paper

Frid, E., Bresin, R., & Alexanderson, S. (2018). Perception of Mechanical Sounds Inherent to Expressive Gestures of a NAO Robot – Implications for Movement Sonification of Humanoids. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Frid, E. (2017). Sonification of Women in Sound and Music Computing – The Sound of Female Authorship in ICMC, SMC and NIME Proceedings. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Read paper

Frid, E., Bresin, R., Moll, J., & Sallnäs-Pysander, E. (2017). An Exploratory Study on the Effect of Auditory Feedback on Gaze Behavior in a Virtual Throwing Task with and without Haptic Feedback. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Moll, J., & Frid, E. (2017). Using Eye-Tracking to Study the Effect of Haptic Feedback on Visual Focus during Collaborative Object Managing in a Multimodal Virtual Interface. Proceedings of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society Conference (SweCog). [Extended abstract] Read paper

Frid, E., Elblaus, L., & Bresin, R. (2016). Sonification of Fluidity – An Exploration of Perceptual Connotations of a Particular Movement Feature. Proceedings of the Interactive Sonification Workshop (ISon). Read paper

Bresin, R., Elblaus, L., Frid, E., Favero, F., Annersten, L., Berner, D., & Morreale, F. (2016). Sound Forest/Ljudskogen : A Large-Scale String Based Interactive Musical Instrument. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Paloranta, J., Lundström, A., Elblaus, L., Bresin, R., & Frid, E. (2016). Interaction with a Large Sized Augmented String Instrument Intended for a Public Setting. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Giordano, M., Hattwick, I., Franco, I., Egloff, D., Frid, E., Lamontagne, V., TeZ, C., Salter, C., & Wanderley, M. M. (2015). Design and Implementation of a Whole-Body Haptic Suit for "Ilinx", a Multisensory Art Installation. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Read paper

Frid, E., Giordano, M., Schumacher, M. M., & Wanderley, M. M. (2014). Physical and Perceptual Characterization of a Tactile Display for a Live-Electronics Notification System. Proceedings of the joint ICMC & SMC Conference (ICMC|SMC). Read paper

Frid, E., Bresin, R., Moll, J., & Sallnäs-Pysander, E. S. (2014). Sonification of Haptic Interaction in a Virtual Scene. Proceedings of the SMC Sweden Conference : Sound and Music Computing : Bridging Science, Art, and Industry. [Extended abstract] Read abstract

Theses

Frid, E. (2020). Diverse Sounds – Enabling Inclusive Sonic Interaction [Doctoral dissertation, KTH Royal Institute of Technology]. Read thesis

Frid, E. (2014). Perceptual Characterization of a Tactile Display for Live Electronic Music Performance : Designing a Vibrotactile Notification Tool for the CIRMMT Live Electronics Framework (CLEF) [Master’s thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and McGill University]. Read thesis

Reports

Falkenberg, K., S.-O. Daunfeldt, Ljungdahl Eriksson, M., & Frid, E. (2023). Välklingande butiksvaror : En generell och applicerbar metod för bättre arbetsmiljö och färre stölder. Read report

Alborno, P., Kolykhalova, K., Frid, E., & Malafronte, D. (2015). Analysis of the Qualities of Human Movement in Individual Action. Proceedings of eNTERFACE’15 Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces. Numediart Institute, University of Mons. Read report

Frid, E. (2013). Restaurant Soundscapes in Stockholm. Project Report TMH Speech Music and Hearing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Read report 

Project Contributions

Participation in "G3S : Generative Spatial Synthesis of Sound and Music", ERC Advanced Grant, 2025-2030.

Participation in “Retail Soundscapes : A Cross-Industry Study on Sound Design and Music Strategies”, Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council, 2024-2025 (prolonged to 2027).

Coordination of "Accessible Digital Musical Instruments – Multimodal Feedback and Artificial Intelligence for Improved Musical Frontiers for People with Disabilities", Swedish Research Council, 2020-2024.

Participation in "Sweet-Sounding Shop Goods : A General and Applicable Method for an Improved Working Environment and Fewer Thefts in Retail", Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council, 2020-2023.

Participation in "Music for All", NAVET KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2022.

Participation in "SONAO – Robust Non-Verbal Expression in Virtual Agents and Humanoid Robots : New Methods for Augmenting Stylized Gestures with Sound", Swedish Research Council, 2018-2022.

Participation in "DANCE", EU ICT H2020, 2015-2017.