- What is geothermal heat?
- How far into the sky does the light from Yoko Ono's Peace Tower travel?
- Are portmanteau words frequent in Icelandic?
- Is there any proof of the existence of ghosts or other such spirits?
- What changes in education can we expect in the next few years or decades and what effect might these changes have on teaching and learning?
- Is there some way to predict the future?
- Why are people in Iceland not named after fish like Bleikja (arctic char) or Urriði (trout)?
- What can you tell me about diving sea birds?
- What can you tell me about diving sea birds?
- Is Iceland really a part of Scandinavia, or is just said to be because of the country's connections with the Nordic countries?
Human Behavior Laboratory
MASI BOOK
The Hidden Structure of Interaction: From Neurons to Culture Patterns. Edited by: L. Anolli, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. S. Duncan JR., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, M.S. Magnusson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland and G. Riva, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy.
MASI
MASI stands for Research Group on Methodology for the Analysis of Social Interaction. The group was founded in 1995 and the activities have been summarized in the book ‘The Hidden Structure of Interaction’ edited by Anolli et al, 2005.
In the view of the MASI group social interaction is something very generic. It is not confined to traditional psychology or ethology. Its principles apply to vastly different areas like linguistics, media sciences, facial expression studies, and electrophysiology of neural tissues.
MB 2010
The 7th international conference on methods and techniques in behavioral research was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands from 24-27 August 2010. The Human Behavior Laboratory presented 6 papers and organized a Theme User Meeting and a Tutorial - see program.
MASI MEETING 2010
The sixth meeting of MASI - Research Network on Methodology for the Analysis of Social Interaction took place December 3rd-4th 2010 at the University of Paris VIII. Abstracts and presentations will be available online in February 2011.
The Human Behavior Laboratory is dedicated to theoretical and methodological development concerning the spatio-temporal organization of human behavior and interactions.
The focus is on the development and testing of mathematical pattern types for the description and analysis of behavior as a complex process that takes place in real-time and space. A series of related patterns have already been defined and are now called the t-language or the t-system.
Special software,Theme, has been developed for the testing of the t-system and for its research application, but this software development is now in the hands of PatternVision Ltd.
The Theme software frequently detects complex hidden patterns that are missed by other available methods and software.
The focus is mainly on human behavior but behavior of other animals is also considered because of the important perspective it often provides on the human case.