Benjaman Schogler PhD
Creative Director
Dr Ben Schogler is a developmental psychologist and expert in educational technology, learning and play. A seasoned entrepreneur with a wealth of experience in bringing new products to market, business development, scaling and brand partnership. Co-founder of award winning Skoogmusic Ltd, the accessibility-focused music technology company, who’s products retail in Apple stores all over the world, Ben is a leading evangelist for technology that improves quality of life. Ben brings his passion for creativity to bare on developing solutions, products and services for Playable Technology. The team at Playable also provide product and business development services grounded in real-life go-to-market experience for a diverse portfolio of clients around the world. Musician, TedX speaker, author, Ben is a regular speaker at education and technology events.
Talks, Presentation, Interviews…
Ben can often be found presenting, demonstrating and discussing play, technology, development, inclusion, accessibility, creativity and education at conferences, symposia, trade events and academic institutions around the world.
Selected appearances:
OPPI, MINDTREK, BETT, ATIA, CTG, TMEA, BAMT , CONVERGE, WWDC, Apple Accessible House, TedX, Mozart Science, EWEP, ICPA, Performance Matters International Conference on music Perception and Cognition , Musicae Scientae, BBC, STV, Music Teacher Magazine , WIRED, TECHCRUNCH, HSN, iTunes U, BEYOND , SXSW, IMMERSIVE FUTURES LAB, Aalborg University Medialogy , ArtEZ University of the Arts, UEL, Design for All award, Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition.
Creative Informatics
Interview for the Power of Data exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland 2024 (Edinburgh Science Festival)
Skoog Story
Talking about the development Skoog with the ROVIO research team at OPPI gets in Finland.
GAAD 2017
Chatting with James Rath at the Apple campus, Cupertino. Part of Apple’s at Global Accessibility Awareness day activities in 2017.
NAMM 2021.
Chatting with Music Tectonics podcast at the annual trade show of the National Association of Music Merchandisers, “you know it can be hard to hunt down what's crazy, cool, and truly innovative among the sea of instruments, gear, and software. That's why we gathered together innovators from all corners of the trade show to demo their newest, wildest musical inventions!” (Dimitri Vietze, music tectonics)
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Meet the expert...
An interview for Digital world, Scotland. Digital World is an initiative to promote careers in the digital technology industry. It has been developed by Scotland's digital technologies sector and Skills Development Scotland.
The colour of sound
Extract from the “colour of sound” documentary, narrated by John Hannah, featuring Professor Dave Lee and Dr Bernjaman Schögler.
Introducing...
Introducing Skoog 1.0 to Staff and student’s at Aalborg University, Denmark, 2013.
Publications:
Selection of publications below:
Rhythmic Relating: Bidirectional Support for Social Timing in Autism Therapies. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 13, (2022), ISSN=1664-1078, Daniel Stuart , Wimpory Dawn , Delafield-Butt Jonathan T. , Malloch Stephen , Holck Ulla , Geretsegger Monika , Tortora Suzi , Osborne Nigel , Schögler Benjaman , Koch Sabine , Elias-Masiques Judit , Howorth Marie-Claire , Dunbar Penelope , Swan Karrie , Rochat Magali J. , Schlochtermeier Robin , Forster Katharine , Amos Pat
Prospective organization of neonatal arm movements: A motor foundation of embodied agency, disrupted in premature birth (2018). Jonathan T. Delafield‐Butt, Yvonne Freer, Jon Perkins, David Skulina, Ben Schogler, David N. Lee
Schogler, B., Polokoff, R., Pepping, G-J., Perkins, J. & Lee, D.N. (2017). Improving tauG-control of action in Parkinson’s Disease (preprint) doi.org/10.1101/143313
A perception-action strategy for hummingbirds, January 2010 Perception 39(9):1172-4. Jonathan Delafield-Butt, Andreas Galler, Ben Schogler, David N Lee.
Trevarthen, C., Delafield-Butt, J.T., & Schogler, B. (2009). The Psychobiology of Human Gesture: Form, rhythm, and melody in infants’ movements of narration. In Hatten (Ed.) Music and Gesture. London: Ashgate.
Lee, D. N., & Schogler, B. (2009). Tau in musical expression. In S. Malloch & C. Trevarthen (Eds.), Communicative Musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship. Oxford: Oxford U. P.
Schogler B.W. (2008) Rhythmus – action time. In Handicap, Education and Participation - Encyclopaedia of Special Education, Editors Otto Braun and Ulrike Lüdke. Stuttgart (Germany): Kohlhammer
Trevarthen C. and B. Schogler (2008) Musicality and the creation of meaning: Infant’s voices and jazz duets show us how, and not what, music means. In Cross Disciplinary Studies in Music and Meaning. Editors C. Grund and R. Hatten. Indiana University Press.
Schogler, B., Pepping, G-J. & Lee, D. N. (2008). TauG-guidance of transients in expressive musical performance. Experimental Brain Research, 198, 361-372.
Shahbazi M., Schogler B., Sanders R. and Koenig F. (2008) ISBS Conference 2008, July 14-18, Seoul, Korea - NINTENDO WII CONTRIBUTION TO SPORTS BIOMECHANICS: A PILOT STUDY OF PUSH-OFF KINEMATICS IN BREASTSTROKE SWIM TURN
Lee, D. N. & Schogler, B. (2007). Movement, Music and Tau in Universal Harmony. In G. Kugiumutzakis (Ed.), Sympantiki Armonia, Mousike kai Epistimi. Ston Miki Theodoraki. (Universal Harmony, Music and Science: In Honour of Mikis Theodorakis.) Heraklion, Crete University Press.
Trevarthen C., & Schogler B. (2007) Dancing Minds. In Being Moved by Action-Perception, Music and Speech. Mirror neurons and the developmental bases of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity and clinical applications. Braten S. (Ed). Cambridge University Press.
Schogler B. W. (1999) Studying Temporal Co-ordination in Jazz Duets. The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Musicae Scientae. Special Issue-Rhythm, Musical Narrative, and Origins of Human Communication ESCOM.
Schogler B. W. (1998) Music as a Tool in Communications Research. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 7(1), pp40-49.