BIOPAC Overview of Uses, Publications, and Research
BIOPAC Uses:
- BIOPAC Student Lab—The Gold Standard for Life Science Instruction
For educators who need a fast and easy-to-implement teaching solution, who desire to increase student engagement, or who wish to customize their instruction or extend learning with advanced lessons, the Biopac Student Lab (BSL) is the recognized leader in life science teaching systems and is in use in the top universities around the world. The BIOPAC Student Lab system is an integrated life science teaching solution that includes hardware, software, and curriculum materials that students use in undergraduate laboratories to record data from their own bodies, animals, or tissue preparations. The system includes over sixty-five complete lessons that educators use as part of undergraduate lab courses.
- Two examples of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of Brain Computer Interface (BCI), are the research being done at the University of North Texas’s Computational Neuropsychology and Simulation Lab: https://cns.unt.edu/brain-computer-interfaces; and the M.I.N.D. Lab at Newhouse School of Public Communications: http://www.mind-labs.org/.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world communication disorders, is the research being done by Dr. Daniel Hudock at Idaho State University’s Northwest Center for Fluency Disorders. In short, the center strives to, “improve communicative skills and abilities of clients with fluency disorders.” See: http://www.northwestfluency.org/research/current-research/.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of communication research, is the work being done by Drs. Cummins and Bolls at Texas Tech in the Center for Communication Research. Their focus is the application of neuromarketing/biometric science as a methodology for optimizing media content (see: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/research/ccr/pyschophysiologylab.php).
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of Engineering, is the research being done by Dr. Faghih in the Computational Medicine Laboratory at the University of Houston: http://computationalmedicinelab.ece.uh.edu/facilities/.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of fMRI research, is the work being done at UC-Berkeley’s Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center. See: http://bic.berkeley.edu/stimulus.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently relevant to the world of marketing, is the research being done by Dr. Shannon Rinaldo at Texas Tech. As the creator of TTU’s Marketing Physiological & Neurological Imaging Laboratory, she utilizes several measures, including fNIR, ECG, EMG, EDA, Blood pressure and Eye tracking, to link subject’s reactions to marketing tactics: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/rawlsbusiness/about/marketing/panil/.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of Neuromodulation & Neuroimaging, is the research being done by UCLA’s XR initiative: https://x-reality.humspace.ucla.edu/uncategorized/the-laboratory-of-neuromodulation-neuroimaging/.
- Two examples of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of Political Science, are the research being done by Kevin Smith from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Dr. Michael Wagner at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. See: https://www.unl.edu/polphyslab/ & https://mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/groups/pace/, respectively.
- Although the world of Psychology and the research covered is limitless in scope, an exciting example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within that realm, is the research being done by Dr. Frank Russo at Ryerson University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqCi-Ug2Qw&list=FL7ugdMZdyyArUF1Fqy2yfMA&index=5&t=2s & https://www.ryerson.ca/psychology/about-us/our-people/faculty/frank-russo/.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of social research, is the work being done at the University of Michigan’s HomeLab. The lab provides an extensive suite of physiological measurement tools in a homelike research environment. See: https://biosocialmethods.isr.umich.edu/labs/u-m-homelab/.
- Two examples of BIOPAC’s presence within the realm of Social Work come from Dr. Eric Garland of the University of Utah and Dr. Patrick Bordnick of Tulane University. Dr. Garland’s current work centers on mindfulness training and its effects on emotion regulation, drug recovery and pain management: https://drericgarland.com/research/. Dr. Bordnick has been a pioneer in the use of virtual reality as a therapy for addiction, PTSD, and behavioral modification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPfQQw72kus.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of User Experience (UX) is the research being done at the University of Montreal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKZRGP0m1b4&feature=youtu.be; http://tech3lab.hec.ca/en/about-us/the-environnement/.
- An example of how BIOPAC is currently utilized within the world of Psychophysiology, is the research being done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center. See: http://bic.berkeley.edu/stimulus.
Reference Customers and Publications
- Alex Francis – Purdue – Speech Perception & Cognitive Effort https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/spacelab/facilities/
- Center for Healthy Minds – UW-Madison – Mindfulness/Empathy https://centerhealthyminds.org/science/studies/brief-trainings-to-buffer-against-acute-stress-effects (Unfortunately they don’t state BIOPAC, but they show some pictures. They also have an open-source tool for converting AcqKnoweledge files: https://github.com/uwmadison-chm/bioread)
- Scott Yaruss – Michigan State University — Stuttering – Recent paper using BIOPAC: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00356/full
- Another video of facial EMG from the same customer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=132O2wxp2jI&list=FL7ugdMZdyyArUF1Fqy2yfMA&index=6&t=3s
UX and Design Research using BIOPAC—EMG, EDA, ECG, Face Reader, Eye Tracking
- Towards Agility and Speed in Enriched UX Evaluation Projects– BIOPAC ECG and EDA + Eye Tracking. Review of 12 UX case studies using biometrics for Agile development
- Operationalizing Engagement with Multimedia as User Coherence with Context – BIOPAC EMG, EDA, ECG, Eye Tracking
- Visual Complexity of Websites and its Effects on Experiential, Psychophysiological, Visual Search Reaction Time and Recognition Responses – EDA, fEMG BIOPAC
- Neurophysiological Impact of Software Design Processes on Software Developers – emotional response of engineers to software structure of new builds. EEG and EDA BIOPAC
- Effective use of human physiological metrics to evaluate website usability: An empirical investigation from China –ECG (HRV) BIOPAC + Eye fixation duration, fixation count, blink count
- The Application of Physiological Metrics in Validating User Experience Evaluation on Automotive Human Machine Interface Systems -ECG, Respiration, and EDA BIOPAC
- Working with an invisible active user: Understanding trust in technology and co-user from the perspective of a passive user: ECG BIOPAC, EDA, Eye Movement
- Psychophysiology of the passive user: Exploring the effect of technological conditions and personality traits: ECG , EDA BIOPAC
- Shared Experiences of Technology and Trust: An Experimental Study of Physiological Compliance Between Active and Passive Users in Technology-Mediated Collaborative Encounters: EDA, ECG BIOPAC
- Effects of interface design factors on affective responses and quality evaluations in mobile applications – facial EMG, EDA BIOPAC
- Detecting Users’ Cognitive Load by Galvanic Skin Response with Affective Interference – ECG, EDA BIOPAC + Eye Movement 60Hz
- Identifying Psychophysiological Pain Points in the Online User Journey: The Case of Online Grocery1 – EDA, Face Reader (from BIOPAC) BIOPAC + Eye Tracking
- Unconscious Physiological Effects of Search Latency on Users and Their Click Behaviour – EDA, facial EMG BIOPAC
- Engaged or Frustrated?: Disambiguating Emotional State in Search – EDA, facial EMG BIOPAC
- Ad Intrusiveness, Loss of Control, and Stress: A Psychophysiological Study – EDA, facial EMG, Pulse BIOPAC
- Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Effect of Challenge-Skill Manipulation on Electrodermal Activity– Video game UX. BIOPAC EDA
Team Dynamics and Decision-Making—Facial EMG, EDA, ECG, ICG (+ Cardiac Output)
- Physiological evidence of interpersonal dynamics in a cooperative production task –EDA, ECG, facial EMG BIOPAC
- Psychophysiological arousal and inter‐ and intraindividual differences in risk‐sensitive decision making – EDA, ECG BIOPAC
- What seems attractive may not always work well: Evaluative and cardiovascular responses to morality and competence levels in decision-making teams– BIOPAC ECG + Impedance Cardiography (ICG- Cardiac Output)
- Getting to know you: a multimodal investigation of team behavior and resilience to stress : ECG BIOPAC
- PREDICTING TEAM WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE USING TEAM AUTONOMIC ACTIVITY: ECG, ICG (cardiac output) BIOPAC
- The Relationship between Task-Induced Stress, Vocal Changes, and Physiological State during a Dyadic Team Task – ECG, ICG (cardiac output) BIOPAC
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