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
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
I just returned from another pleasant stay at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Psychology, where I was invited to give a talk on psychology & technology. This time, I chose to tell the story …
Lock-in Amplifier Game at Physics@Veldhoven
Last week Maurits, Davide and I had a great time demonstrating our “Flappy Bird” game at the Physics@Veldhoven conference. “Flappy Bird” invites a player to wave his or her arms in a rhythm set by …
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 …
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 …