Archive for December, 2011

Humanistlabbets kurs Språkkorpusarbete ges under feb-mars 2012. I kursen behandlas hela processen med att bygga en korpus: datainsamling, transkription, kodning och analys. Det ingår även moment kring forskningsetik, metadata och korpusstatistik. Vi kommer främst arbeta med programmet CLAN, men vi diskuterar även flera andra transkriptions- och analysmetoder. Ett särskilt moment ägnas åt kodnings- och analysverktyget… »

At today’s seminar Philip Pärnamets presented his study that uses eye movements to investigate choice blindness. In this paradigm, participants are tricked into thinking they selected something else than what they actually selected. Although this effect is considered stable across many tasks - people do get fooled, and do not remember what they actually selected… »

The ERC project  ’ Language, cognition and landscape ’ (LACOLA), which is hosted by the Humanities Laboratory, has now launched its web… »

At today’s seminar Henrik Blidh presented his master thesis in mathematical statistics entitled ‘Using Multiple Instance Learning for Event Detection in Eye Movement data’. Like Linnea Larsson’s seminar a few weeks ago, Henrik’s thesis targets the detection of blinks, fixations, saccades, smooth pursuit, and glissades, but, unlike Linnea,  Henrik approaches the problem from a machine… »

A new course in Expermental Design is being run at the Humanities Lab by post-doctoral researcher Richard Dewhurst, beginning Feb 2012. Please email Richard.Dewhurst@humlab.lu.se if you want to sign up. The course is particularly targeted at beginning PhD students, who want to address a research question with quantitative methods.

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At today’s seminar, Thomas Jaarsma and Halzska Jarodzka presented a planned study where the eye track physicians who diagnose lesions from x-rays using a zoomable microscope. Most eye-tracking studies of the medical diagnosis process have worked with still images, often x-rays of chests or mammograms. Working with zoomable images introduce many new challenges, just like… »