“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 …
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 …
. 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Thermographic video of a cool tear rolling down a warm cheek. At the Amsterdam VU University Physics lab with Asmir Gračanin.