A photo of Dr. Kyle Keane. He is a bearded Caucasian man with long hair, wearing a flat cap. He is smiling and sitting in front of an array of spatial audio equipment.

Kyle Keane

Senior Lecturer in Assistive Technologies

University of Bristol

About Me

Dr. Kyle Keane is the Senior Lecturer in Assistive Technologies at the University of Bristol.

His research combines cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and accessibility engineering to develop perception-aware assistive technologies.

He draws on a background in quantum computing and computational physics to investigate how humans interpret meaningful information from interactive systems.

His work on intersensory perception explores how information can be sonified, rendered through touch, or fused across senses to form meaningful cognitive representations.

He has pioneered auditory and tactile data representation methods that make computational science accessible to blind users.

His own degenerative retinal condition and dynamically changing vision inform this focus on the limits and potential of human perception.

Sessions

  • Reality – A Fuzzy & Buzzy Mess (at Times)

    Resilient, Intersubjective Validation During Adaptive Frequency | Temporal Recalibration
    17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Tuesday 10th November 2026 | Bristol 2Bristol 1Bristol 3
    Beginner
    In-Person & Online

    Perception is negotiated — never given. Each observer samples a noisy world at their own rate; drift is inevitable, and largely unnoticed. So what is taken from us when the channels between us are narrowed, systemically attenuated, left to decay? Recalibration is not private: it is rehearsed, repaired, held in company. Listening together | listening for each other — the alignment is the content. A single source, however loud, is swallowed by a room built to swallow it. But many — modest, distributed, precisely in phase — synthesise a wavefront no one of them could produce, arriving with full force […]