Above, a video visualizing two of our participants’ ECG responding to music in real-time. Yellow and green lines represent their ECG’s, red the level of synchrony between them. The audio is a live recording of …
Music as Medicine: Sync
Inauguration Maurits Kaptein
Friday January 12th, Maurits Kaptein, my promoter, good friend and founder of the JADS “Computation Personalisation” lab, was inaugurated as Professor (by special appointment ) Data Science & Health at the JADS and Tilburg University. You …
Paper accepted! Age differences in emotional responses to monetary losses and gains.
“Psychology and Aging” just accepted our* latest paper, which offers new insights into how aging appears to change our emotional resilience towards monetary gains and losses for the better. The abstract: People of all ages …
At the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
I am happy to announce that I have been accepted as a researcher at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science! In a nutshell, this means that I am now allowed to travel to beautiful ‘s-Hertogenbosch …
Start coding for Bobbi – the open source ECG monitor
. I was asked to put some basic code examples online to help developers get started with the Totem Bobbi Motion + ECG Monitor. For those not in the know: “The Bobbi” is a very …
Kinect Dyadic Distance App
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 …
Latest paper at intersection of physics and psychology now in PlosOne
Yay! Our latest paper at the interface between physics and human behavior has just been published in PlosOne. We’re on a roll! Scripts, code and data sets are available at the Harvard Dataverse. Abstract: Due …
Presentation at the University of Rijeka, Croatia
Just returned from a very pleasant stay at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Psychology, where was invited to give a talk on how recent technological advances can help further our understanding of the intricate …
Our paper “Tracking the decoy” has been published!
Really happy (and proud) that our paper on the application of lock-in feedback for optimal placements of decoys has just been published – written in close collaboration with Prof. Davide Iannuzzi and Dr. Maurits Kaptein. …
Flow: LiF in the zone
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
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
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
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. …
Gallery Tracks – Artist-Scientist Project
Together with Johan Nieuwenhuize I am currently working on a Artist-Scientist project that traces the whereabouts of visitors to an exposition. This will enable Johan to adapt and evolve his installation based on the …
Locking into an active life
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 …