| Tuesday / 26th
August | |||||
| Time | Auditorium 2 | Brussels | Rome | Athens | Berlin | 
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Tutorial:
      Analyzing behavior and
interactions with Theme | Tutorial:
      Using eye tracking for
measuring and analyzing human behavior | Tutorial:
      Telemetry
Monitoring of Physiologic Parameters for Conscious Animals | Tutorial: Gesture
coding with  NGCS-ELAN (9:00 - 13:00) | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Tutorial:
      Working with
digital video: understanding MPEG | Tutorial:
      Thermographic
recordings; the theory behind and application of; guided by
thermographic recordings during short live experiments. | |||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Registration (in Lobby) | Tutorial: Zone
transitions and other advanced analysis in EthoVision XT 5.0 | Tutorial:Multimodal
research in The Observer XT: how to record,synchronize and manage data
from multiple sources | Tutorial: Psychophysiology
Applications using a BIOPAC MP System | User meeting CatWalk | 
| 15:30 -
17:00 | Tutorial: Behavioral methods for studying memory in animals | Tutorial: The Software
Development Kit for The Observer XT: Make your own plug-ins | Tutorial: BIOPAC
Scoring & Automation Tools for Psychophysiology Analysis | ||
| 17.00- 18.30 | Welcome Reception  | ||||
| Wednesday / 27th August | |||||
| Time | Auditorium 2 | Brussels | Rome | Athens | Berlin | 
| 8:30-9:30 | Keynote speaker: Professor Sir Patrick Bateson | ||||
| 9:30 | Symposium:
       (9:30-12:40) | Free paper session: Measuring usability, accessibility and user experience (9:30-13:30) | Symposium:
       (9:30-16:30) | Symposium: (9:30
- 10:50) | Symposium: Measuring recovery after brain and spinal cord injury in rodents and non-human primates (9:30-10:50) | 
| J. Fentress: Introduction | L.D. Riek: Affect decoding and human computer interaction | Z. Ruttkay: Introduction | Introduction | J.C. Bresnahan: Measuring a broad spectrum of clinically relevant outcomes after experimental spinal cord injury | |
| J. Fentress: Stepping outside the traditional "science" box | R. Lahuerta: How User Oriented Methodologies can help to build better services? | P. Slycke: 6 DOF Motion Analysis Using Inertial Sensors | Betty Tuller:
Funding for international projects from the US National Science
Foundation (NSF) | L. Schnell: The
Schnell Swim Test (SST) to measure motor function and recovery in spinal cord injured rats | |
| M. Cabanac: Measuring consciousness in animals | A. Visser: Sharing experiences through interactive media: new ways of studyin social concepts | H.F.J.M. Koopman: Hip compression force estimation with a comprehensive musculo-skeletal model | Ramon
Rentmeester: Trans-Atlantic cooperation funded by the EU FP7 programme
for research and technological development | G.E. Metz: Skilled limb use in rat models of human neurological disease | |
| I. Golani: Problems of behavioral measurements | M. Romero: An Integrated method for a qualitative and quantitative analysis for an ergonomic evaluation of home appliances | H.M. Schepers: Ambulatory estimation of ankle and foot dynamics and center of mass movement | Plenary
discussion | M.S. Beattie: Measuring recovery of forelimb function after CNS injury in rodents and primates, with notes on man. | |
| Allan V. Kalueff: Understanding brain affective states by measuring animal grooming patterns | A. van Drunen: uLog: Towards attention aware user-system interactions measurement | A.R. Ferguson: Translational measures of behavioral function after spinal cord injury: A multivariate study of outcomes across species | |||
| 10:50-11:30 | Coffee
break | ||||
| 11:30 | Magnus S. Magnusson: Observing versus seeing, perception versus detection, and data versus nature | H.P.Slijper: Measuring computer use behavior: patterns of variability, within and across days and between different users | C.T.M. Baten: 4
years of FreeMotion: towards practical large scale application of ambulatory 3D analysis of human movement | User meeting: EthoVision (11:30-13:00) | Symposium: Pain assessment | 
| J.W. Aldridge: Brain systems for action sequences | M. Haesen: Evaluating a location-based mobile game in early stages of the development. | A. Egges: Analysis of human navigation and manipulation motions | A.F. Gabriel: Measuring pain-induced gait adaptation: the CatWalk method | ||
| Discussion | M. Fjeld: Epistemic action: A measure for cognitive support in Tangible User Interfaces? | B.J.H. van Basten: Combining manipulation and navigation in virtual environments | Thomas
Christoph: Traditional and novel behavioral models to evaluate pain. | ||
| G. Goldschmidt: Measuring design behavior: Analysis of networks of links among speech units in design sessions | M. Cabanac: Measuring pain | ||||
| Peter Fröhlich: Hats off to Liliput: Experiences with lightweight lab equipment for portable user testing | M. Arif: Facial expression to discriminate between pain and absence of pain in critically ill intubated adults during painful procedures | ||||
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch + Poster and Demonstration
sessions | ||||
| 14:30 | Free paper session: Multimodal analysis of behavior and physiology (14:30-16:10) | Free paper session: Latest developments in video and other tracking techniques and automatic behavior recognition (14:30 - 16:30) | H. van Welbergen: Using motion capture data to generate and evaluate motion models for real-time computer animation | Free paper session: Measuring behavior in a clinical context (14:30-16:10) | Free paper session: Analysis of patterns of behavior (14:30 - 16:30) | 
| K.G. Mellot: Measuring behaviors of dyssunchronous patient ventilator interaction | Ebraheem I. Fontaine: Detailed automated visual tracking of biological model organisms | N.B. Berthouze: Using motion capture to recognize affective states in humans | A. Mostayed: 3D Facial model generation for surgical planning with 3D scanned data and conformal mapping | V. Quera:
Similarity maps of behavior sequences: Methods and software for pattern
exploration and segmentation | |
| J. Arroyo-Palacios: Towards a standardization in the use of physiological signals for affective recognition systems | J. Spitzen: Track3D: Visualization and flight track analysis of Anopheles gambiae s.s. mosquitoes. | F.W. Fikkert: Online Segmentation of Continuous Gesturing in Interfaces | G.J.M. Tuijthof: Arthroscopic view: can we see more by quantifying the image quality? | J. Castellano: Analysis of the interaction contexts in soccer performed by the teams along the last 13 finals of the Eurocoup | |
| P.H. Zimmerman: The Observer XT: a tool for the integration and synchronization of multimodal signals | Adam Feldman: Real-time tracking of multiple targets using multiple laser scanners | E.N. Kuria: The influrnce of gender steriotype priming on sicial action | K. Coninx: Using the Phantom Device for Rehabilition of the Arm in MS Patients: a Case Study | J. Fernandez:Identifying and analyzing the construction an effectiveness of offensive plays in basketball by using systematic observation | |
| S.R. Campbell: Educational neuroscience: new opportunities for educational research | H.H. Sahafi: Imprinting with morpholine and use of silicon base tags on behavioral tracking in fish maze | Discussion | D.L. Woods: Apolipoprotein E4 status is Associated with Agitated Behavior in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia | M. Castañer: Identifying and analysing motor skills answers in the corporal expression and dance through OSMOS | |
| L. Zhang: A
novel method for long-term intra-cranial electroencephalographic
recordings in mice - Behaviorally related brain rhythms and
hypoxia-induced seizures | S.R. Campbell: Active Shape Models for Mouse Behavior Classification | P. Södersten: Eating rate in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity | J.C. Nesbit: Sequential pattern analysis software for educational event data | ||
| J. Chaverri: Analysis of hidden patterns in team sports: is there transversality in interaction contexts? | |||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Tea break | ||||
| 16:30-17:30 | Free
paper session: Animal behavior in the field (16:30-17:50) | Free
paper session: Analysis of communication: Sound, speech,  gesture
and emotion (16:30-18:10) | Symposium: Behavioral testing of zebra fish (16:30-17:50) | Free
paper session: Gait analysis in animals and humans (16:30-17:50) | |
| 16:30 | J.A. Gillies: Onboard video cameras and instruments to measure the flight behaviour of birds | K.P. Truong: Measuring spontaneous vocal and facial emotion expressions in real world environments | K.EA.Karlsson: Measuring sleep in complex and simple organisms | C. Bahr:
Automatic detection of lameness in dairy cattle: Image features related
to dairy cow lameness | |
| T. Kimura: A
Study for Identification and Behavioral Tracking of Honeybees in the Observation Hive Using Vector Quantization Method | A. Dadkhah: The pattern of Facial Expression among Iranian Children | R. Willemsen: Zebrafish as model for Parkinson's disease | L.T. Stroobants: An automated open field mouse gait analysis test | ||
| T.E. Dennis: Performance characteristics of smaller-mammal GPS collars | D.A. Ducharme: Using Noldus’ The Observer XT to analyze videotaped footage of Deaf signers learning to read with a tutor | R. Gerlai: Zebrafish: development of automated behavioral test paradigms | D. Janssen: Recognition of fatigue in gait patterns by means of support vector machines | ||
| L.A. Hansen: Measuring aggression and threat-sensitive behaviour in juvenile cod differing in size and nutritional state | H. Lausberg: Gesture coding with the NGCS - ELAN system | W.H.J. Norton: Approaches to analyse mood disorders in zebrafish | B. Assmann: Classical Gait Analysis reveals Regular Movement Cycles in Spontaneous Movements of Human Neonates | ||
| J. Krajewski: A speech adapted pattern recognition framework for measuring energetic states using low level descriptors and functionals | |||||
| 18:30 - 23:00 | Social event: Cruise Maritime | ||||
| Thursday / 28th August | |||||
| Time | Auditorium 2 | Brussels | Rome | Athens | Berlin | 
| 08:30-09:30 | Keynote speaker: Professor David P. Wolfer | ||||
| 9:30 | Symposium: The home cage as starting point for innovative concepts in behavioral phenotyping (9:30-12:30) | Special Interest Group: Telemetry (9:30-12:30) | Special
Interest Group: Consumer behavior (9:30-12:10) | Workshop: Human factors in the cockpit (9:30-13:00) | Free paper session: New statistical and analytical techniques (9:30-12:30) | 
| 9:30 | C.R. Gallistel: Fully Automated 24/7 Behavioral Screening for Mutations in Targeted Cognitive Mechanisms in the Mouse | K. Kramer: Introduction | H.E. Schepers: Innovative Consumer Studies at the Restaurant of the Future | O.V. Prinzo: The computation and effects of air traffic control message complexity and message length on pilot readback performance (preceeding free paper presentation) | R. Manolov: N = 1 effect sizes: Comparing models under autocorrelation | 
| R.C. de Heer: Learning (in) the PhenoTyper: an integrative approach to conducting cognitive behavioral challenges in a home cage environment | J.W.M. Arts: Transportation as major life-event in rats: effects on welfare and limits of adaptation | K. Quartier: The influence of lighting in the build environment: a study to analyse human behavior and perception as measured by mood and observation. | R. Zon: Workshop: Human factors in the cockpit | A. Solanas: Measuring social reciprocity | |
| E. Knapska: Differential involvement of the central amygdala in appetitive versus aversive learning in mice trained in the IntelliCage system. | M. Gerritzen: Inline registration of heart rate and body temperature of free swimming eel. | P. Vasara: ConsuNautTM: Consumer analysis in place and time | S. Meher: An integrated Hidden Markov Model and Multilayer Perceptron classifier for improved behavior recognition in animals | ||
| M.J.H. Kas: Genetic dissection of motor activity and anxiety-related behaviors in mice using an automated home cage task. | E. Moscardo: An integrated system for video and telemetric recording: measuring behavioral and physiological parameters | M. den Uyl: Advances in face and gesture analysis | R. Bakeman: Observer agreement for timed-event sequential data: Time-based and event-based algorithms compared | ||
| 10:50-11:30 | Coffee | ||||
| 11:30 | W. Adriani: Home cage testing of impulsivity | O. Stiedl: Concomitant assessment of heart rate and behavior in freely moving mice | L.W.S. Loijens: ICE mobile lab | C.C. Burn: Effects of prevalence on observer agreement: a subjective assessment of working donkey behavior as an example | |
| P. Fabene: Home cage studies of epilepsy | E. Rieux: Trends in telemetry monitoring: more data and improved animal welfare | H. Theuws: Discussion | N.G. Kamychev: Refined approach to register and analyze courtship behavior in Drosophila | ||
| M. Loos: The PhenoTyper automated home cage environment as a high throughput tool to detect behavioral abnormalities in mutant mice | A. Charlet: Improvement of postoperative pain by ropivacaine: a radiotelemetric study of freely-moving rats following calibrated laparotomy. | ||||
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch + Poster and Demonstration
session | ||||
| 14:30 - 17:00 | |||||
| 20:00 - 24:00 | Social event: Preuvenemint | ||||
| Friday / 29th August | |||||
| Time | Auditorium 2 | Brussels | Rome | Athens | Berlin | 
| 08:30-09:30 | Keynote speaker: Professor Gregory D. Abowd | ||||
| 9:30 | Symposium: Living labs for studying human behavior in the home (9:30-12:30) | Symposium: Clinical and preclinical models for depression (9:30-12:10) | Free
paper session: Behavioral tests with new animal species (9:30-10:10) | Symposium: Measuring the impossible: an EU new and emerging science and technologies initiative (9:30-12:30) | Free paper session Measuring player experience in digital games: behavior, psychophysiology, and brain-based indicators (9:30-10:10) | 
| 9:30 | A. Monk: Measuring fun in the home | D.L.A. van den Hove: Prenatal stress produces anxiety- and depression-related behavior particularly in male Sprague-Dawley rats | P. Marchei: Three statistical methods to analyze breed differences in the behavioral response to a challenging situation in kittens | M. Gröning: MINET – A European network on Measuring the Impossible | T. Falkmer: In PC and XBOX war games, are military personnel’s fixations patterns different compared to civilians’? | 
| E. O'Neill: Measuring urban mobility and encounter | Rowan: Synaptic plasticity dysfunction in vivo | H. Schroeder: Induction of a social differentiation in human groups submitted to an experimental situation based on the rodent diving-for-food model | L. Zheng: Measuring perceived odor quality | S. Tjundjing:
Me, my SIMS, and my real me: Implicit measure of attitude using The SIMS | |
| B. de Ruyter:
Application driven experience research | Myint: Interferon alpha induced depression | Free paper session: Latest developments in mazes and other tests for learning, memory, and anxiety (10:10-12:30) B.G. Southwell: Measuring media exposure: Age and memory complications | J.M. Geusebroek: Focal attention models driven by image statistics | Symposium: Measuring player experience in digital games: behavior, psychophysiology, and brain-based indicators (10:10-12:30) R.L.
Mandryk: A physiological approach for continuously modeling user emotion | |
| E. Naroska: InHaus-2: An innovative testbed for developing and testing ambient assisted living solutions and systems | K.E. Overvliet: Measuring Perception of Naturalness | M. Klasen: Think Aloud-method during fMRI to determine neuronal correlates of subjective experience of video game playing | |||
| 10:50-11:30 | Coffee | ||||
| 11:30 | M. Tscheligi:
Probing in the wild: lessons learned for contextual research | B. Leonard: Olfactory bulbectomised rat | T. O'Leary: The Effects of apparatus design and test procedure on learning and memory performance of C57BL/6J mice on the Barnes maze | W. IJsselsteijn: Digital games | A. Nijholt: Multi-modal Behavioral Cues from Bodily Interaction in Ambient Entertainment Applications | 
| I. Mulder: Reading the tea-leaves in an intelligent Coffee Corner: understanding behavior by using sensory data | T. Strekalova: Measuring behavior with chronic stress depression models in mice | N. Violle: Combined effects of illumination, closed wall type and extramaze space size on the anxiety-related behavioral baseline of rats submitted to the elevated plus-maze. | M. Overgaard: Measuring conscious mental states | N. Ravaja: Psychophysiology of digital game playing: The relationship of self-reported emotions with phasic physiological responses | |
| Discussion | Free
paper session: Latest
developments in video and other tracking
techniques and automatic behavior recognition (continued, 12:10-12:30) H.Hamers: Automated scoring of novel object recognition in rats | R.E. Brown:
Detecting, measuring and correcting errors in automated behavior analysis equipment | G.M. Cicchini: Memory: Measuring the relationship between perception of space and time | W. van den
Hoogen: Towards real-time behavioral indicators of player experiences:
Pressure patterns and postural responses | |
| G.W.A.M. van der Heijden: Discussion | |||||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00-15:00 | Pannel
discussion (14:00-15:00) | User
meeting: The Observer (14:00-15:30) | Free paper session: Measuring human behavior in traffic and urban environments (14:00-15:20) | Free
paper session: Eye tracking and gaze analysis (14:00-15:40) | Workshop: Video annotation (14:00-15:30) | 
| 14:00 | How much does the context influence the measurement of behavior? | N.J. Starkey: Telemetric longitudinal measurement of young driver behavior | M. Carl: Towards an annotation standard for eye tracking data | ||
| A. Clarion: The e-motion system: an integrated device to evaluate drivers’ functional state in the field. | S. Prom Tep: Web site quality evaluation combining eyetracking and physiologicial measures to self-reported emotions: an exploratory research | ||||
| J. de Lemos: Measuring emotions using eye tracking | |||||
| G. Theuner: Analysis of Advertising Effectiveness with Eye Tracking | |||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Tea | ||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Closing, Awards | ||||
| 17:00 | Farewell reception | ||||