General session: Use of sensors and other techniques to automate the measurement of behaviors

Date: Wednesday, August 29
Time: 16:10-17:10
Location: 42

16:10   Evaluation of Alterations in Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuronal Excitability Induced by Administration of QTracker® 800 Quantum Dots
  B. Salvetti(1), S. Becchi(2), F. Schio(1),
  E. Moscardo(1), G. Bertini(1), 
  P.F. Fabene(1), and F. Osculati(1)
  (1) University of Verona, Verona, Italy
  (2) University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

16:30   The Coordination between the Direction of Progression and Body Orientation in Normal, Alcohol- and Cocaine Treated Fruit Flies
  Ilan Golani(1), Anna Gakamsky(1), Efrat Oron(1), Dan Valente(2),
  Partha P Mitra(2), Daniel Segal(1), and Yoav Benjamini(1)
  (1) Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  (2) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA

16:50   Video-Based Analysis of Fear Conditioning: a Validation Test
  P.F. Fabene, G. Bertini, M. Pellitteri, E. Moscardo,
  B. Salvetti, F. Schio,
  A. Chakir, and C. Tognoli
  University of Verona, Verona, Italy
  Section of Anatomy and Histology Laboratory of
  Functional Neuroanatomy, Verona, Italy

17:10 End of session

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Date: Thursday, August 30
Time: 10:00-12:30
Location: 40

10:00 Pressure-Sensor System for Sleeping-Posture Classification
  Sabri Boughorbel, Fons Bruekers, and Koen de Groot
  Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

10:20 Monitoring Facial Expressions During the Mars-500 Isolation Experiment
  R.D. Gorbunov, E.I. Barakova, R.M.C. Ahn, and G.W.M. Rauterberg
  Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

10:40 Coffee break

11:10 Automatic Clustering of Conversational Patterns from Speech and Motion Data
  S. Feese(1), B. Arnrich(1), G. Tröster(1),
  B. Meyer(2), and K. Jonas(2)
  (1) ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  (2) University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

11:30 Towards Sensing Behavior Using the Kinect
  Wouter van Teijlingen(1,2), Egon L. van den Broek(1,3),
  Reinier Könemann(4), and John G.M. Schavemaker(1)
  (1) TNO, Delft, The Netherlands
  (2) Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  (3) University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
  (4) TNO, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

11:50 Sonification of Experimental Parameters as a New Method for Efficient
Coding of Behavior
  Andrea Ravignani, and W. Tecumseh Fitch
  University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

12:10 Automated Measurement of Spontaneous Surprise
  Bart Joosten(1), Eric Postma(1), Emiel Krahmer(1),
  Marc Swerts(1), and Jeesun Kim(2)
  (1) Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  (2) University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia

12:30 End of session

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