Authors of articles for the Personal Informatics in Practice workshop at CHI 2012 in Austin, TX on May 6, 2012 have been asked to write a summary for the Quantified Self Blog. Our Blog Guest Post is a summary of our paper “A Cross-Platform Smartphone Brain Scanner”. It is authored by Jakob Eg Larsen, Arkadiusz Stopczynski, Carsten Stahlhut, Michael Kai Petersen, and Lars Kai Hansen.

The workshop will be a gathering of researchers, designers, and practitioners exploring how to better support personal informatics in people’s everyday lives.

Our Smartphone Brain Scanner has received international recognition been selected for the Netexplo 100 2012.

Netexplo 100 recognizes the most significant and promising digital projects around the world. The full list of innovations is here. The mentioning of the Smartphone Brain Scanner is here.

We have received a grant from the H. C. Ørsted Foundation (in danish: H. C. Ørsteds Fond for Teknisk-Videnskabelige undersøgelser) to support our research in human behavior and mobility modeling using smartphones and wearable sensors.

On Nokia Conversations Ph.D. student Arek Stopczynski “talks us through this innovative breakthrough product that works by connecting a commercially available wireless 14-channel EEG headset to a Nokia N900 smartphone”.

More information about the project is available here.

“YOU can now hold your brain in the palm of your hand. For the first time, a scanner powered by a smartphone will let you monitor your neural signals on the go.”

New Scientist Magazine issue 2830 14 Sept 2011 has an article Phone app runs portable brain activity scanner describing our Smartphone Brain Scanner.

A video of our smartphone brain scanner is available:

More information available here.

The CogSys activities and projects at Roskilde Festival are nicely summarized on the CogSys website.

The Roskilde '11 ArtistRecommender app developed by a team of DTU students Erik Beuschau, Michael Lunøe and Rasmus Theodorsen, as part of the festival courses in the Roskilde Festival powered by DTU Students initiative is now formally promoted by Roskilde Festival.

Also Berlingske has an article discussing 'Smart apps for Roskilde Festival' mentioning the Roskilde '11 ArtistRecommender app.

DTU student Thor Riisbjerg Hedegaard won the Roskilde Festival developer competition with his concept ”Roskilde Hook Up”, which includes an app allowing festival participants to “hook up” with other camps or participants.

More information about the announcement of winners at the Roskilde Festival website.

The Roskilde '11 ArtistRecommender mobile app for Android is now available in Android Market. The app is developed by a team of DTU students Erik Beuschau, Michael Lunøe and Rasmus Theodorsen, as part of the festival courses in the Roskilde Festival powered by DTU Students initiative.

The mobile app allow the user to browse the artists at Roskilde Festival 2011 and get personal recommendations based on music preferences. Download the app from Android Market.

At the recent MeeGo 2011 conference Arek Stopczynski and Jakob Eg Larsen did a well received presentation on 'Mobile Platforms in Research and Teaching', where we gave a set of specific examples of research projects that have included prototyping on high-end smartphone/tablet devices.

The online Prezi presentation is available here.

The TV2 Lorry 19.30 program on March 4 featured Ph.D. student Carsten Stahlhut and Assistant Professor Michael Kai Petersen.

They were showcasing our research involving portable EEG equipment at the recent DTU Open House event.