Highlights
Project: Interacting minds, interacting bodies
Members:
- David Gijbels (principal supervisor)
- Piet Van den Bossche (co-supervisor)
- Karolien Poels (co-supervisor)
- Glen Joris (principal researcher)
- Ann Desmet (co-supervisor)
- Kristof Vaes (co-supervisor)
- Anna Jankowska (co-supervisor)
- Walter Daelemans (co-supervisor)
- Luuk Van Waes (co-supervisor)
- Sander Van de Cruys (co-supervisor)
Period: 2022 - 2026 (medium-scale infrastructure project, FWO)
Short description
The common ground in the research of the different partners in this consortium is geared towards discovering and developing new applications of state-of-the-art psychophysiological sensor technologies (using computational and AI techniques) to help people with different needs work, learn and play in our modern society, ensuring that this tracking is meaningfully and responsibly applied. To accomplish this, our consortium is suitably interdisciplinary. This undertaking requires well-controlled lab studies and (near-)continuous psychophysiological tracking in real-life settings 'in the wild'. The research infrastructure applied for enables flexible movement from lab explorations of promising markers to checking their robustness in realistic, ecological contexts, and back again.
The concrete goals of this project are:
- Improve our currently available lab facilities to be able to conduct solid, well-controlled state-of-the art psychophysiological and behavioral lab-studies
- Extend our equipment to be able to conduct state-of-the art unobtrusive tracking in authentic contexts (that will allow us to do studies with vulnerable target groups for which coming to the lab is not obvious).