A short screencast of my Kinect Dyadic Distance App in action at Johan Nieuwenhuize’s studio. The app makes use of the live data streams from a Microsoft Kinect motion sensing device to continuously calculate the …
Kinect Dyadic Distance App
A visit to the TNO Perceptual and Cognitive Systems Lab
My visit to TNO Perceptual and Cognitive Systems group in Soesterberg was a little like stepping onto a James Bond movie – or, more specifically, like a visit to Q’s lab. It helps that you …
Digital thermoregulating bracelet
Wearable technology that controls the temperature you experience through localized heating and cooling. The device resembles a wristwatch with a custom heat sink, attached to an automated control system that automatically adjusts the intensity and …
Thermoregulation in romantic relationships
My digital thermoregulating bracelet has just been put to the test in the lab! Today, our first couple took part in our “Social Thermoregulation in Romantic Relationships” experiment. Happily, both the code and the hardware …
24/7/365 skin temperature sensor
To enable us to measure skin temperatures in our subjects 24/7 for up to a year we currently make use of custom wristbands with Blue Maestro’s unique “Tempo Disc”. The Blue Maestro “Tempo Disc” is a …
No man is an island: KLI / NIAS / Lorentz Presentations
An overview of some of the, often custom build, apps and technologies we use in our research into remote touch and social thermoregulation at the VU Emotion Regulation Lab Amsterdam: Social support is vital to …
1st meeting on the study of social and affective touch in the Netherlands!
In order to meet an increasing interest in the topic of social touch research from a diversity of disciplines, Gijs Huisman (PhD candidate at Twente University) spearheaded the 1st Dutch Meeting on the Study of Social …
Authorware to Arduino Motor Shield Code
Inspired by the “Wristify” we recently developed a simple thermoelectric bracelet of our own that can either cool or warm your wrist. Just like the Wristify, it is built around a “Peltier Cooler“. Such a …
Infant cry detection algorithm
We have recently teamed up Rami Cohen of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and Yizhar Lavner of Tel-Hai Academic College in order to incorporate their cry detection algorithm in one of the custom apps we …