Teaching fellow and author of "the cough taxonomy," a formal signal- processing framework for involuntary noise that took a PhD to arrive at what most rooms already knew by instinct.
- Affiliation
- Slop University Department of Applied Incivility, cross-appointed with the Centre for Ambient Ethics
- w.chow@slop.university
- Contact
- Reachable during any Drop-in Session; email otherwise.
Dr. Chow took a BSc in Psychology at the National University of Singapore and a PhD in Social Signal Processing at ETH Zürich, a six-year programme that culminated in what she formally titles the Involuntary Signal Framework and what students call, only slightly unfairly, “the cough taxonomy” — a three-variable model (timing, target, aftermath) that took a doctoral committee’s sign-off to confirm what any lecture theatre already works out for itself in real time.
She has presented the framework at two conferences, cited it in every paper she has published since, and is cross-appointed with the Centre for Ambient Ethics, alongside Dr. Tanaka, with whom she disagrees cheerfully and at length — in a running exchange now informally referred to around the department as “the seminar” — about whether a classroom or a library is the harder room to read.