Program Topics

All presentations are devoted to innovative methods and techniques in behavioral research. Measuring Behavior 2008 will include a broad range of topics, covering all aspects of the measurement of how people and animals behave. Contributions are welcome on a wide variety of topics, including (but not limited to):

  • video tracking and automatic behavior recognition

  • automatic measurement of facial expressions and emotion

  • gait analysis in animals and humans

  • pain assessment

  • multimodal analysis of behavior and physiology

  • sound, speech and gesture analysis

  • high-throughput technologies for behavioral phenotyping and pharmacological screening

  • behavioral testing of zebrafish,  fruit flies and other important animal models

  • eye tracking and gaze analysis

  • measuring rodent behavior in instrumented home cages

  • measuring consumer behavior in natural settings

  • new animal models for psychiatric and neurological diseases

  • tools for aerospace and automotive human factors research

  • mobile user experience measurement

  • measuring player experience in digital games

  • measuring usability, accessibility, and user experience

  • combination of telemetric monitoring and behavioral monitoring.

  • streams and patterns in behavior

  • and many more

What to expect?
The following sessions are already planned:
A session on measuring behavior of robots which should be fascinating for those interested in the latest technology as well as multi-disciplinary aspects of studying behavior. As usual some sessions focus on either animal or human behavior.

One symposium that covers both animal and human behavior will be on examining the validity of animal models for understanding human diseases. That will also tie in with a session measuring recovery after brain and spinal injury in rodents and non-human primates. A different way of measuring animal behavior will be examined in the symposium ‘Specific applications for the home cage approach and the possibilities for its high-throughput use’. A session on behavioral measurements combined with telemetric measurements of physiological signals in a variety of species will add an extra dimension to our understanding of behavior.

An interesting session from the perspective of human behavior will be one on ambient assisted living. Exciting new techniques are being developed to measure behavior in houses wired with the latest sensory technology, determining both how consumers struggle to use the latest gadgets and how the measurements can provide intelligent feedback to assist elderly or disabled residents.

We also expect sessions on more specific aspects such as measurement of eating behavior of consumers. A broader topic is ‘Measuring the impossible’, which focuses on research into complex phenomena such as emotions and feelings; fun in computer games, and brain activity when listening to music. Music as an analogy of streams of behavioral patterns will be an element in a symposium addressing both the details of movement patterning, but also how careful analyses of behavioral streams can provide insights into cognitive and affective processes.

Papers
Free papers have been received on a wide variety of subjects including:

  • statistical methods

  • pattern analysis in sports

  • ergonomics

  • modeling and reading facial expressions

  • measurement of animal behavior in the field

  • neuroscience tests

  • computer vision technology

  • human behavior in groups

  • clinical studies

  • car driver behavior

 

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