Research projects
Noldus plays an active role in several leading research projects around the world. Our preferred role is that of a technology partner: we develop tools and methods, and the researchers use and validate them. This way we contribute to scientific progress. At the same time the projects give us an opportunity to develop relevant new technologies - not only for today's mainstream use, but also for tomorrow's needs. If you are setting up a research project and think that Noldus could be a partner in the consortium, please contact us.
AIR - Advanced Interface Research
The goal of AIR is to investigate new ways of interaction with technological systems in their respective context of use. Three main contexts in which end-users interact with technology are investigated in detail, namely:
CSI The Hague
Together with the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague and 11 other project partners, Noldus will develop new tools for observation and analysis of behavior for forensic professionals investigating crime scenes. These new solutions will be combined with Virtual Reality techniques to enable serious gaming within a forensic context. The Observer® XT will serve as the central data integration software, into which a variety of data (video streams, movement sensors, tracking data, physiology, etc.) will come together.
The aim of CSI The Hague is to build a forensic research lab in which industry partners, knowledge institutes, and the NFI work together on the implementation of available knowledge and on the development of new techniques. Human Factors methods will be applied to improve CSI methods and procedures, and to enhance training of forensic experts. Read more about the opening of the new CSI Lab.
DRIVOBS
The 'DRIVOBS' project aims to increase knowledge of the ways drivers use vision, motion, and other information to control vehicles. The result will eventually be a set of simulation products for the automotive market to aid the development of vehicle dynamic control systems, active safety systems, infotainment systems and human machine interfaces, and for the training of professional test drivers. Driver behaviour is observed using camera vision, physiological measurements and system identification in complex driving scenarios.
FOVEA - Food Valley Eating Advisor
The main goal of the Fovea project is to use direct feedback to improve food selection behavior. The FOVEA project fits the trend that a growing number of people use smart phones, and use them for activities other than simply telephoning people. Wageningen UR, University of Twente, Noldus Information Technology and MobiHealth BV together developed the FOVEA' system which gives the user immediate feedback on food selection behaviour.
GUARANTEE
GUARANTEE provides a technical solution for personal safety in the home environment. GUARANTEE introduces local and network-supported decision making for safety applications on the basis of sensor input and with immediate response and feedback to the people concerned.
In this project a competent consortium works together, originating from several European countries. Noldus' main contributions will be in work package 2 (WP2) and work package 3 (WP3), developing software for automated behaviour recognition, movement analysis, and multimodal measurement and control.
iCareNet
January 2011 marked the start of iCareNet, a European research and training network on “context awareness for healthcare, wellness, and assisted living”. Context awareness will revolutionize the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers merely interpret explicit user input, context-aware systems analyze and automatically respond to a user’s behavior and situation he/she is in. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and mobile devices is out of question.
Instrumented Endoprosthesis and BIomechanical Models of the Shoulder (IEBiMS)
This project is an important part of a large interdepartmental research program at Delft University of Technology called DIPEX: Development of Improved endoProstheses for the upper EXtremities. The goal of the IEBiMS project is to measure joint reaction forces in the shoulder using an instrumented endoprosthesis and to link this to the Delft Shoulder and Elbow Model (DSEM).
PRONTO
PRONTO emphasizes the role of event recognition in intelligent resource management (IRM) and proposes a methodology for fusing data from various sources, analyzing it to extract useful information in the form of events and delivering the resulting knowledge for decision making, through a user-friendly IRM application. In order to achieve this objective, PRONTO draws methods and expertise from the fields of data fusion, information extraction, temporal representation and reasoning, machine learning, and knowledge management systems.
TREND (Trauma Related Neuronal Dysfunction)
TREND is a consortium of Dutch medical and technical universities, and industrial companies, in which research on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type 1 (CRPS-1) is integrated.
Noldus Information Technology, as a provider of professional software and instrumentation for the study of behavior, contributes to the research program Assessment technology. This program is aimed at developing assessment instruments for measuring specific aspects of CRPS in both CRPS and healthy patients. Within the research program Assessment technology, Noldus Information Technology provides software and instrumentation to the project teams Bradykinesia and Pulse Transit Time. Within the TREND project, multimodal data integration of The Observer XT (which is the core of the Pulse Transit Time system) was further developed. In the Pulse Transit Time system, The Observer XT integrates behavioral data (coded events) and physiological data (electrocardiogram, blood pressure and pulse plethysmogram).