STW Open Mind program two-minute video entry. To make the video fit the STW’s two-minute time limit, we had to remove some sections of our original video and compress it by about ten percent. As …
Locking into an active life
Cold tear
Thermographic video of a cool tear rolling down a warm cheek. At the Amsterdam VU University Physics lab with Asmir Gračanin.
Online continuous decoy optimization
April 2016: We have removed Qualtrics from our experimental workflow, and have instead chosen for a custom Drupal based survey engine. As time went by we needed more and more workarounds to get our code …
Decoy Effect LiF simulation in R
We ran the R simulation below to test our hypothesis that LiF should be able to optimize decoy effects (I will add comments further clarifying my train of thought as reflected by the script within …
UNICEF Wearables for Good: we made it to the finals
The challenge: To design wearable and sensor technology that serves people in resource constrained environments. Our solution: Totem Open Health is currently developing a low-cost, passive, mobile and non-invasive system to monitor fetal health. Monitoring …
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 …
Reimaginations
My postscript for “_IMG“, the new photobook of Johan Nieuwenhuize. Johan is a Dutch photographer, artist and curator – and a good friend of mine. ____ Autobiographical memories, that is, the memories that build the …
Frebble – connect through the squeeze of a hand – over a distance
The Emotion Regulation Lab has been provided with early access to the Frebble: a device under development by Holland Haptics that can physically connect you to another person over the internet. When one user squeezes …