Sense-IT Lab (under development)

NTNU

Sentīre means to feel, sense, or perceive.

From this shared Latin root emerged two concepts:
senses and sensors.
At Sense-IT Lab, we bring them together to enhance human perception through technology.

People

  • Dominik Osinski

    Dominik Osinski

    Lab leader · Associate Professor

    Sensory substitution, multisensory perception, and sensor systems that enhance human perception.

    NTNU profile dominik.osinski@ntnu.no
  • Andrew Perkis

    Andrew Perkis

    Lab leader 2003–2026 · Professor

    The intersection of art and technology, particularly immersive media, presence, sensor-based digital storytelling, and media quality assessment.

    NTNU profile andrew.perkis@ntnu.no

Members

PhD students

Master students

Bachelor students

PhD, Master's and bachelor students interested in perception, sonification or XR are welcome to get in touch.

Place

Three researchers wearing 3D glasses around a stereoscopic display rig in the Sense-IT lab

The Sense-IT lab is a shared, reconfigurable room for prototyping and user studies. Each project can set up its own area, or pod, so students, researchers and visiting partners can build and test side by side.

The lab opened in 2003 as part of Q2S, the Norwegian Centre of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems.

Visiting
Contact dominik.osinski@ntnu.no to arrange a visit or a demo.

Process

We work through experimentation, piloting and demonstration: ideas are built quickly, tried with real people, and shown in use.

  1. 1

    Explore

    We start from how people perceive the world, and from the needs of the people we design for, together with users and partner organisations.

  2. 2

    Prototype

    We build working prototypes in the lab: sensors, sonification, wearables and virtual reality environments.

  3. 3

    Test

    We run user studies and subjective evaluations to measure what people actually perceive and experience.

  4. 4

    Share

    We publish, demonstrate and bring the results back to users, partners and students.

Projects

  • Sensory substitution

    Colorophone

    A wearable device that converts spatial colour and distance into live stereo soundscapes, developed with Jagiellonian University.

    Osinski · Sensors, 2021
  • Virtual reality

    VIRCO

    A VR environment for long-term training and evaluation of sensory substitution skills, used to test new concepts such as visual echolocation. Developed with AGH University of Krakow.

    Osinski · Sensors, 2021
  • Sonification

    Emoson

    Real-time sonification of facial expressions.

    Osinski
  • Immersive media

    Beyond presence

    A study of how identity and emotion shape presence in virtual reality for natural hazards preparedness.

    Irshad, Perkis, et al. · Virtual Reality, 2025
  • EU project · Quality of experience

    AdMiRe

    Mixed reality for media production. Sense-IT hosted the project's validation and quality-of-experience assessment.

    Perkis · admire3d.eu

Partners

  • Research partner

    Consciousness Lab, Jagiellonian University

    Kraków. Joint studies on perception and the experience of sensory substitution.

  • Research partner

    AGH University of Krakow

    Kraków. Joint work on VIRCO, the VR environment for training sensory substitution skills.

    agh.edu.pl
  • NTNU

    NTNU ARTEC

    NTNU's art and technology initiative, coordinated from Sense-IT.

    ntnu.edu/artec
  • NTNU · SINTEF

    XR Gemini Centre

    Joint NTNU and SINTEF centre for extended reality. Sense-IT is one of its associated labs.

    ntnu.edu/xrgemini
  • EU project

    AdMiRe consortium

    European partners in mixed reality for media production.

    admire3d.eu

Interested in working with us? Contact dominik.osinski@ntnu.no.