Archive for November, 2011

During the first half of the spring term 2012, I will be teaching a new statistics course.  Central to the new course is that the participants are expected to bring their own data, and that they have basic knowledge in statistical analysis, and experience with the program R. Preferably, participants have completed the introductory course… »

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Last week, we had a workshop on webometrics. Inspired by the demonstrations, I wrote an R-script that scans the Swedish online marketplace “blocket” for a specified category (e.g., cars, garden tools, bikes, etc.), and creates a wordcloud of the products that are for sale within that category. An example of what is for sale within… »

Todays seminar discussed event detection in eye-movement data, a topic that is of extreme importance to all research that uses the durations, amplitudes, velocities etc. of fixation, saccades and all the other events. Contrary to popular belief, the detection and measurement of these events is far from a solved issue, and all current commercial algorithms have… »

Digital Multimedia Archive of Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage

Building on an established research program spanning four decades, this initiative will seek to firmly establish Lund University as a global center of excellence in research into the highly endangered Austroasiatic languages and cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. Central to this drive is the construction of a… »

Digitalt multimediaarkiv för austroasiatiskt immateriellt kulturarv (Dig-AAA)

Detta infrastrukturella initiativ har som mål att göra Lunds universitet till ett globalt centrum för forskning kring de hotade språk och kulturer i Sydöstasien och Indien som förknippas med den austroasiatiska språkfamiljen. Centralt i denna ambition är etablerandet av en toppmodern digital och multimedial arkivmiljö i syfte att bevara… »

Tim Smith gave a very inspiring talk about how film editors already had established the principles for editing in the 1920s. Now we can examine these conventions and rules of thumb, and surprisingly Tim found that they were basically all correct. Film editors know how to manipulate viewer gaze to make sense of continuity. This feeling… »

Today, Jana Holsanova, co-editor of Visual Communication, presented the draft of a paper that compares the semiotic analysis of how an image is read to eye-movement data. Previous studies from the eye-tracking group have shown that semiotic theories can be tested, and today’s discussion focussed on how the two theoretical frameworks compare, and whether further… »

A colleague of mine recently told me a story I have heard many times, and which has pestered our own laboratory throughout its history. It is interesting for many reasons, partly technical, partly because it constitutes the core of competence in any laboratory of our kind, and partly because it points to a severe weakness… »