Equipment

The fourMs Lab is equipped with state-of-the-art systems for studying human motion and physiology in a multimedia context.

The lab contains several different types of motion capture systems, eye tracking glasses, and physiological sensors. There are also a number of video cameras and audio devices for multichannel audio and video recording. In addition comes the multichannel audio rig, which allows for the exploration of spatial audio.

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Photos from a music performance experiment with the Borealis String Quartet in the fourMs lab in December 2019. The lab can fit a small audience of around 20 people (left). The musicians wore motion capture suits, heart rate sensors, and eye-tracking glasses (middle). Researchers run the experiment from a separate control room (right).

Some of the main systems available in the fourMs Lab:

  • Qualisys optical motion capture system (13 Oqus cameras)
  • Optitrack optical motion capture system (2x8 cameras)
  • Xsens MVN full-body mobile motion capture system
  • AX3 inertial data loggers (20 loggers)
  • Polhemus Patriot, magnetic 6-DOF motion tracking system.
  • Various inertial low-cost sensors and sensor systems
  • MEGA biosignal sensors (4xEMG, 2xIMU)
  • Delsys biosignal sensors (8xEMG, 4xECG)
  • Sweetzpot respiration sensors (10x)
  • Multichannel truss mounted speaker rig with 24 Genelec (8020B) speakers for spatialization (Higher Order Ambisonics, VBAP, DBAP, etc.)
  • Small Wavefield Synthesis speaker array (24 channels).
  • 2 active 6-channel hemispherical speakers for point-based sound diffusion.
  • Various multitouch keyboard instruments: TouchKeys, Roli Seaboard Grand, Soundplane, Linnstrument, Continuumini
  • Various acoustic and electronic instruments
  • High-end SSL AD/DA converters and RME Madiface XT for multichannel audio I/O
  • A large range of microphones, both normal types and quite unusual ones
  • A collection of video cameras for various needs
Published Aug. 24, 2020 3:46 PM - Last modified Jan. 19, 2022 1:57 PM