HTI: Research and Education in a changing world
Our mission is to perform fundamental research on human-technology interaction, particularly with respect to communication and information and in regard to the promotion of more sustainable performance of individuals. With a solid psychological foundation and located and connected with the technical departments at Eindhoven University of Technology, the HTI group is at the cutting edge of user-system interaction research.
Dreaming about Intelligent light, by Yvonne de KortIn this video (in Dutch) Yvonne de Kort tells about her dream about intelligent lighting. A mixture about an interest for lighting and environmental psychology, Yvonne has incorporated both in her recent work on intelligent lighting. She takes part in the ILI (Intelligent Lighting Institute) formed at TU/e. Enjoy her dream! |
EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2012
For the call for abstracts (deadline 16 April 2012) and information about how to register, see: http://www.experiencinglight.nl/ |
Interview embodied gaming by Wijnand IJsselsteijn
The interview (in Dutch only) can be found at the website of 'the Cursor' or by clicking on the image on the left. |
Cum Laude promotion of Joris JanssenOn March 13th, 2012 Joris Janssen defended his Ph.D thesis, which was awarded the exceptional Cum Laude distinction (see here for a Dutch summary). Joris’ thesis, ‘Connecting people through physiosocial technology’ has opened up a new field of research. The study of physiosocial technology is based on affective computing, social signal processing, and mediated communication (esp transformed social interaction), but is identical to none of these areas. Combining these diverse fields leads to a new, multidisciplinary area where computing technologies are applied to transform and enrich communication between people, either mediated or face-to-face. Dr. Janssen focused on novel ways of helping people to feel connected while physically separated from each other. His research includes empirical investigations into emotion recognition accuracy in man and machine (with machine outperforming man!), the sound of another person’s heartbeat as an intimate signal (similar effects to looking each other in the eyes!), and training empathic responding through physiological synchronisation feedback (it works!). The research was conducted as a collaborative project between the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Cees Midden), Philips Research (Joyce Westerink), and Stanford University (Jeremy Bailenson). The thesis can be downloaded from the TU/e Library page. |
Socially assitive robots helping an aging society
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HTI research in Silicon Valley
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Serious games: Wijnand IJsselsteijn interviewed
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Looking back at Environment 2.0
http://fotografie.woutervandenhoogen.nl/index.php/environment-2-0/ We also thank our sponsors of the conference (Philips, and Nederland Schoon) for their support! |
Highlighted Paper "Orange as a Perceptual Representation of the Dutch Nation"
Author: Daniël Lakens Although it is generally accepted that colors carry meaning, experimental research about individual, situational and cultural differences in the meaning of colors is scarce. Many countries have national colors that are used to represent the nation, such as when sport teams dress in the colors of their nation during international competitions to indicate their country of origin. Although probably all people in The Netherlands know that orange is the Dutch national color, the current research investigated whether orange is also psychologically meaningful for the Dutch. It turns out that the more people identify with The Netherlands, the more they like the color orange. |
Quest interview on Affective ComputingThe Dutch Magazine Quest has recently interviewed Wouter van den Hoogen. In their quest to inform the general public about what scientists do, the HTI group was visited. In the 1 minute video affective computing and the steps needed to get there are shortly (very much so) described. See the youtube video below: |
EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2012 is an international two-day scientific conference for people interested in the effects of light and light design on human wellbeing. It approaches wellbeing in its broadest sense, including mood, emotions, subjective and objective health, comfort, atmosphere perception, productivity, and performance. It follows the successful Experiencing Light conference in 2009, and focusses on the psychological processes related to the perception of and exposure to both natural and artificial lighting. The goal is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers and designers working in this domain so they can meet, share experiences, present research, and exchange ideas. EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2012 is organized by the HTI group.
From August 26st to 28th the HTI group hosted the 9th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology called Environment 2.0. The conference was attended by over 350 researchers in the field of environmental psychology. Thanks to the great organizing comittee (Cees Midden, Yvonne de Kort, Antal Haans, Jaap Ham and Ellen de Bree), the wonderful student volunteers, and of course all contributions and the keynote speakers the conference was made a succes. The conference has now ended, but if you want to have an impression of the conference have a look at the photos taken during the conference. They can be found at: