Lab Facilities

The Perception Lab is designed for the experimental study of human cognition. It can also be used for experiments that investigate how humans interact with artificial cognitive systems. It includes specialized soft- and hardware for the accurate measurement of reaction times, and for the presentation, recording, and analysis of speech data.

The Joint Eyetracking Lab is designed for studying a range of human cognitive processes, including reading, speech, dialog, and visual processing. The setup in the lab is unique in that it contains two state of the art head-mounted eyetrackers, controlled by customized software that makes it possible to study how participants interact when they solve collaborative tasks. Of course the lab can also be used for single-participant eyetracking studies.

Software

We are actively developing WebExp, a software package for conducting experiments over the world-wide web. Web-based experimentation gives access to a large and varied set of potential subjects, and experiments can be administered without the overheads of lab setups, attendance schedules, and so on. WebExp is written in Java, and uses XML as the description language for defining experiments and storing results.