Person
Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail jana.holsanovalucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 09 26
Room LUX:B554
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am Associate Professor in Cognitive Science, Reader in the master's program in Cognitive Science, supervisor, project leader and senior researcher in Linnaeus environment ”Cognition, Communication, and Learning” at Lund University.
My research focuses on multimodality, cognition and communication. I have been using eye movement measurement to study in detail image perception, the interplay between language and images, the role of images for learning, visual communication, visual thinking (mental imagery), and users' interaction with various media. My research has practical implications for how we design accessible and readable texts in print and on-line. Currently, I am investigating accessibility of visual information via the process of audio description (verbal descriptions of visual scenes for people with visual impairment and blindness).
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My profile in Lund University research portalManagement assignments
- Coordinator of the initiative "Audio description and image description for accessible communication and social inclusion" 2019-
- Deputy member of the Board, Philosophy Dept., 2019-
- Member of the steering committee, Linnaeus environment Cognition, Communication and Learning: Thinking in Time (CCL), 2009–2019
- Chair of the Swedish Braille Authority (Punktskriftsnämnden), Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, MTM 2012 –
- Board Member of the Swedish Braille Authority (Punktskriftsnämnden), Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, MTM 2009–2012
- Mentor for postdoctoral researchers within the framework of luPOD - Lund University Career Development
- Chair elect of the Visual Communication Division, International Communication Association, ICA 2013–2015
- Head of the department of Educational Sciences, 2015
- Director of Doctoral Studies Philosophy Dept., 2014
- Member of the Equal opportunities group (JLM), Department of Philosophy, 2012–2014
- Vice Chair of the Visual Communication Division, International Communication Association, ICA 2011–2013
Editorial board
- Slovo a slovesnost, Praha. 2010 –
- Guest editor Visual communication, Sage (2012)
- Review editor in Frontiers in Communication, section Multimodality of Communication 2021-
Awards
- Recipient of the award from Inga and John Hains Foundation (2013, 2014)
Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail jana.holsanovalucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 09 26
Room LUX:B554
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Links
- Cooperation initiative Audio description for accessible communication
- Discourse, vision, and cognition. Book published at John Benjamins 2008.
- Image description for accessibility - guidelines, research and practices
- Methodologies for Multimodal Research. Special issue of Visual communication edited by Jana Holsanova. Sage 2012.
- Syntolkning. Forskning och praktik 2016