Program Topics

Contributions are welcome on a wide variety of topics, including (but not limited to):

Analysis of behavioral measurements

• New statistical techniques
• Analysis of streams and patterns in behavior
• Analysis of patterns in sports matches
• Reliability analysis

Clinical and psychological applications of behavioral measurements

• Gait analysis in animals and humans
• Latest developments in tests for learning and memory in humans and animal models
• New animal models for psychiatric and neurological diseases
• Pain assessment
• Sound, speech, and gesture analysis

Human-machine interaction

• Human factors measurement- and analysis tools for cockpit evaluation and pilot behavior
• Measuring the impossible; an EU new and emerging science and technologies initiative
• Measuring player experiences in digital games: behavior, psychophysiology, and brain-based indicators
• Measuring robotic behavior
• Measuring usability, accessibility, and user experience

New animal models

• Behavioral tests with new animal species
• Combination of telemetric monitoring and behavioral monitoring
• Behavioral testing of zebrafish
• New animal models for psychiatric and neurological diseases

New technologies for studying behavior

• Latest developments in video tracking and automatic behavior recognition
• Automatic measurement of facial expressions and emotion
• High-throughput technologies for behavioral phenotyping and pharmacological screening
• The home cage as starting point for innovative concepts in behavioral phenotyping
• Measuring behavior using motion capture
• Multimodal analysis of behavior and physiology
• New hardware and software for measuring behavior

Studying behavior in realistic environments

• Animal welfare studies
• Measuring animal behavior in the field
• Behavioral ecology and ecotoxicology
• Eye tracking and gaze analysis
• Human behavior in traffic and urban environments
• Living labs for studying human behavior in the home
• Measuring consumer behavior
• Mobile user experience measurement