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.
Inside Consumer Experience (ICE)
Website: http://www.ice-project.org/
The aim of the ICE project is to develop novel instruments and mobile services for the objective measurement of food selection and consumption in real-life contexts. Noldus is the coordinating partner in the project and is responsible for the development of a mobile observational and sensory laboratory with state-of-the-art (third-party) hardware solutions and accompanying software, integrated into one synchronized system.
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).
TUMCAT (Testbed for User experience for Mobile Contact-aware ApplicaTions)
Website: http://www.freeband.nl/project.cfm?language=en&id=1128
The aim of the project is to conceptualize, develop and implement a user experiences test environment, particularly for mobile context-aware applications. The test environment will enable researchers to design and evaluate new applications, by measuring the experiences of users being in the own living or working environment of the user.
TUMCAT aims at providing researchers and user-centered designers with (new) measurement instruments which, combined with the existing User Centered Design (UCD) methods and tools, provide the desired insight in the user experience, especially during the evaluation of new products and services, but also during other phases of the UCD cycle.
HILAS - Human Integration into the Lifecycle of Aviation Systems
Website: http://www.hilas.info/
HILAS stands for Human Integration into the Lifecycle of Aviation Systems. Funded by the European Commission, HILAS is an international research initiative with 40 partners from across the aviation industry and academia in Europe, and also beyond.
AMIDA (Augmented Multi-party Interaction with Distant Access)
Website: http://www.amiproject.org/
The AMIDA consortium is a multi-disciplinary community of research partners and associated organizations united by a common vision: “Business productivity, by way of individual and group activities between and during meetings, can be dramatically enhanced with the use of advanced signal processing and knowledge management”. The consortium is dedicated to the development of technologies that will enhance multiparty interaction. Noldus has joined this consortium since April 2009.
PRONTO
Website: http://www.ict-pronto.org/
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.
CSI The Hague
Project website: http://www.csithehague.com
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.