Reading facial expressions?

Hi everybody,
The for humansensing/affective computing market is really rolling.

Try this out:

Press - "Try demo Now".

If have tried it myselv:
Morten tries facial expression reader from Affectiva when seeing a SuperBowl commercial

(It gives the same results as the human sensing seminar did:
I am quite lively!)


Please notice the very informative descriptive statistics. I find such very valuable.

Obviously is there no export facility of the data in the demo.

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The dreams of the Musictherapist (might) come true

Dear everybody!
A wealth of new mobile sensors are announced and presented at various conferences.
A good place to start is
Wired or http://mobihealthnews.com/

A Sensor Patch from BodyMedia








With an page title Saying "Your Body Is an API: 9 Gadgets for Tracking Health and Fitness" Wired announces a wealth of mobile sensors including the plaster above.

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Quantified Self at Psykology?

I had "15 minutes of fame" for the psychology student at 3 semester at Aalborg University in which at promoted the idea og creating a Quantified Self Group in Aalborg. A group that should "wise" or heterogeneous composed but the main fragment should be psychology students.

Johan Trettvik had been kind and gave me the time. Thanks Johan. I have a talk which motivated the students. The Ppt is here.

Johan had a very nice argument for supporting the initiative: when he recalls his own studies one activity that have had the largest impact was his involvement in external studygroups studying the german philosopher Luhmann. And I agree. My studies consisted of studies in Computer Science but indeed also in visions and opportunities for new technology. A QS group can easily be a splendid part of a very exciting study mileu.

The feedback from the students was dominantly positive. At the meeting and visitors at humansensing.blogspot.com was 13 that day. A couple have already mailed me.  I am looking forward to start the group with them.

At the meeting I was wearing 2 sensors. I promised to upload the data from the meeting. I will.

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Humansensing - Tour de France

Hi Humansensing!
Greetings from the summer-tour-de-france-couch!
IDA, the  union for engineers in DK recommended a site on statistics in Tour de France.


Trainingpeaks is a very interesting site and a very modern and professional too.
Trainingpeaks is a metatool that collect that from a number of different devices and present them for analysis.

And it can as our Polar watch be used together with a real instructor/coach but the user can also make use of a virtual coach!
The real coachs needs for marketing is considered in the tool too!

From the Tour de France to riders have uploaded data from their equipment, Chris Anker and Flecha

Most interesting stages are


2. stage: Chris Anker takes his part of the work at the teamtrial(tip: look for watt performance)
Description and partly analysis
Graphical presentation



14. stage: Chris Anker støtter Contrador
Description and partly analysis

Graphical presentation
By the way you may find current speed some where, Chris Anker is quite impressive!



Have a nice summer

Morten

Humansensing seminar - a good proof of concept

Anders Bonde and Niels Hannibal from the HS group

The seminar was for the Humansensing group a first public and very positive experience.
Lots of people(28) had enrolled, we had made our first experiments with our sensors, good discussions and feedback. And furthermore - a number of people asked to be enrolled in our activities!

The only thing more we could wish was well prepared tests with good results. We gained a large number of lesson learned regarding the use of sensors in single subject studies but we did not get scientific proof of the value of use of sensors.

The seminars conclusions - that is the minutes from the final discussion is available here.

The powerpoint presentation are accesible via the table below.

Title	Presenter
Prehistory of Humansensing PPT	Morten Aagaard, Persuasive Design, AAU
An example of use of sensors in clinical research -  ten years ago PPT	Hanne Mette Ridder, Associate Professor Music therapy AAU
Potentials, pittfalls and tradeoffs in the use of sensors in human science and related praxis fields PPT	Johan Trettvik, Psychology, Assistant Professor, AAU
Experiment I: Measuring Meditation PPT	Morten Aagaard, Persuasive Design, AAU
Experiment II: Measuring the Relation between Music and Moving Images Combining Physiological and Self-Raporting Data PPT	Anders Bonde, Music, Associate Professor, AAU
Experiment III: Quantified Self - 24/7 sensor diary PPT	Jonathan Led Larsen, psychologist, Region Nord
Sensors - state of the art	Neeli Prasad, Associate Professor  at Center for Tele Infra Structure, AAU
Perspectives and announcement Summary of discussion Announcements	The Humansensing group

Finally we would like to thanks all  that has helped us. Financially or otherwise.
Professor Ramjee Prasad, CTIF, sponsoring the sensors
Christian Jantzen, head of Institute for communication and psychology, sponsoring equipments
Tove Arendt Rasmussen, head of  Human Centered Communication and Informatics,  sponsoring the lunch

Sensor talk on June 14th

Dear everybody,
As a part of the preparation of the humansensing seminar we agreed that Niels Hannibal and Morten Aagaard should wear the BodyMedia and the Polar pulsesensor. And we did.

The results have been elaborated in our spreadsheets and the numbers do we believe can be interpretated by you, the blogreader withour further comments.

Low Galvanic Sensor Response indicates either physical or mental relaxness. High value opposite. 
The figures are

 SDNN is the standard deviation in a given(NN) period. Low SDNN values indicates low HRV which indicates concentration, physical activity, stress or excitement. Low numbers are caused by concentration, physical activity, stress or excitement. High values are caused by the opposite. pnn50 is a the coefficient of heartbeats that varies more than 50 milliseconds to the previous heartbeat. Another indication of relaxedness. Low numbers are caused by concentration, physical activity, stress or excitement. High values are caused by the opposite.

 Please feel free to interpretate!

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Invitation to participation in the Humansensing seminar June 14th 9-15

Dear everybody,
We are very pleased to invited researchers, practitioners within human science fields to a Proof of Concept Seminar.
The humansensing group started its work in January, held a number of interesting meeting, being funded to buy sensors and how we make an first attempt to experiments with sensors.

Feel free to enroll if you consider using sensors in research, education or praxis.


Program as pdf flyer is available here.

When: June 14^th, 9-15
Where: Kroghstræde 3, room 4.110
Registration: Here
More info: Katja Lund, kl@cbg.dk