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October 2016

This archive holds all posts form October 2016.

Flow: LiF in the zone

Android, Lablog, Psychology, Research • October 23, 2016 • Robin van Emden

I am currently testing yet another application of the versatile “Lock in Feedback” (LiF) algorithm: Dynamic in-game Difficulty Adjustment. Inspired by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow theory, dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) or dynamic game balancing (DGB), “is …

Face ratio optimization

Code, Lablog, Minds, Psychology, Research • October 21, 2016 • Robin van Emden

Do you like average faces best? Adjust the sliders and find out! *   If you find the avatars at the center of the feature space more attractive than those at the perimeters, you are …

Photographic Memories

Art, Lablog, Minds, Psychology, Writing • October 18, 2016 • Robin van Emden

Tique Art recently released several booklets that provide a compelling overview of OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE, the new collaborative project of Japanese photographer Shinji Otani and Dutch photographer Johan Nieuwenhuize. I am particularly smitten with the handmade …

Tear detection device

Lablog, Psychology, Research, Technology • October 17, 2016 • Robin van Emden

We just put our Tear Detection device through its paces – and it works even better than expected. The device is built from a tiny USB camera and a Seek Thermal Compact thermal imaging camera. …

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