Interpersonal EEG Synchrony While Listening to a Story Recorded Using Consumer-Grade EEG Devices

Interpersonal EEG synchrony derived from the hyperscanning technique has the potential to reveal brain mechanisms beyond the border of traditional analysis within an individual subject. However, the inter-brain connectivity has not been fully investigated using wearable consumer-grade EEG devices which can enable a variety of application in a...

A novel, simple and objective method to detect movement artefacts in electrodermal activity

Skin conductance or electrodermal activity (EDA) has been shown to be a reliable indicator of emotional arousal. With the current development to record EDA with wearable sensors attached to individuals who freely move around, detecting EDA artefacts is essential. Current practice of detecting EDA artefacts relies heavily on expert judgments....

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Effortless Passive BCIs for Healthy Users

While a BCI usually aims to provide an alternative communication channel for disabled users who have difficulties to move or to speak, we focused on BCIs as a way to retrieve and use information about an individual’s cognitive or affective state without requiring any effort or intention of the user to convey this information. Providing only an...

Brain computer interfaces as intelligent sensors for enhancing human-computer interaction

BCIs are traditionally conceived as a way to control apparatus, an interface that allows you to act on" external devices as a form of input control. We propose an alternative use of BCIs, that of monitoring users as an additional intelligent sensor to enrich traditional means of interaction. This vision is what we consider to be a grand...

Sectoral Innovation Foresight. Space and Aeronautics Sectors. Final Report. Task 2

The European aerospace industry is world leader in large civil aircraft, business jets and helicopters, aero-engines and defence electronics. The sector in Europe is dominated by a small number of large firms highly concentrated in the UK, France and Germany. It is a mature market focusing on incremental product and process improvements. With...

Sectoral Innovation Performance in the Space and Aeronautics Sectors. final report. Task 1

The Space and Aeronautics Sectors are high tech manufacturing sectors. Between Space and Aeronautics Sectors are linkages and parallels. All major systems assemblers are active in both sectors. Examples are EADS but also Boeing, BAE Systems and manufacturers of propulsion systems and other components (e.g. the SAFRAN group). Safety regulation...

Bacteria Hunt: Evaluating multi-paradigm BCI interaction

The multimodal, multi-paradigm brain-computer interfacing (BCI) game Bacteria Hunt was used to evaluate two aspects of BCI interaction in a gaming context. One goal was to examine the effect of feedback on the ability of the user to manipulate his mental state of relaxation. This was done by having one condition in which the subject played the...

How to decide on the scope, priorities and coordination of information society policy? Analytical framework and three case studies

Purpose: ICT is everywhere, but information society policy cannot address all the sectors and policy issues in which ICT plays a role. This paper's aim is to develop an analytical framework to assist policy makers in deciding on the priorities and coordination of information society policy. Design/methodology/approach: The analytical framework...

Innovation in information society policy: Rationale, policy mix and impact in The Netherlands

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how innovation has become more important in information society policy and what the implications are for policy design, policy coordination and policy evaluation. Design/methodology/approach - Against the background of European information society policy, a case study is done on the policy mix...

Decision-level fusion for audio-visual laughter detection

Laughter is a highly variable signal, which can be caused by a spectrum of emotions. This makes the automatic detection of laughter a challenging, but interesting task. We perform automatic laughter detection using audio-visual data from the AMI Meeting Corpus. Audio-visual laughter detection is performed by fusing the results of separate audio...

User-Created-Content: Supporting a participative Information Society

Europe's growing army of bloggers and social networkers can generate new services and growth. European interactive websites like video sharing sites and blogs are growing, generating revenue for both owners and contributors. Compared with the US, which hosts the most commonly used websites for content created by users (blogs, texts, videos,...

Verkenning van omroepmarkten in Nederland: Marktontwikkelingen en beleidsinstrumenten

Voor reguleerders als OPTA is inzicht in marktontwikkelingen onontbeerlijk. Technologische beleidsmatige en maatschappelijke kwesties leiden tot talrijke veranderingen in de markt voor communicatiediensten, waaronder die van omroep, en de wetgeving die daarop betrekking heeft. Doordat OPTA niet de enige reguleerder is die bevoegdheden heeft in...

Audio-visual processing in meetings: Seven questions and current AMI answers

The project Augmented Multi-party Interaction (AMI) is concerned with the development of meeting browsers and remote meeting assistants for instrumented meeting rooms - and the required component technologies R&D themes: group dynamics, audio, visual, and multimodal processing, content abstraction, and human-computer interaction. The audio...

De textiele toekomst volgens TNO: Ontwikkeling dynamische, denkende materialen

De nieuwe schaats-outfits, de trouwjurk van Máxima: nieuwe textielsoorten veroveren de markt. Ook de zorgsector kan profiteren van nieuwe toepassingen en materialen, vooral op het gebied van bedtextiel. Van het reguleren van de temperatuur tot het meten van de vochtigheidsgraad: binnenkort kan textiel het allemaal.

Gevaarlijke valse verticalen: Desoriëntatie door scheve architectuur

Ouderen of patienten met evenwichtsstoornissen zijn in hoge mate afhan­ kelijk van hun visuele systeem. Zij kunnen grote hinder ondervinden van lijnen die een valse richting van de zwaartekracht suggereren. Wanneer die lijnen die suggestie wekken, is niet altijd duidelijk. Maar dat het be­ langrijk is hiermee rekening te houden bij de...