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Prof. Pavlidis' Interview to BBC

  Prof. Pavlidis gave an interview to BBC regarding the role of survelliance technology in our society. 

 

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CPL's New Paper in the IEEE TBME Journal

The paper describes the tracking method used in the Nature - SREP '12 paper.

 

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OzoneMap Receives National Coverage

"OzoneMap" is now available for Android devices through Google Play, and for Apple products through the iTunes store.

  

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 Ph.D. Showcase Awards

CPL Ph.D. students won all four awards at the University of Houston Computer Science third Ph.D. Showcase Event.

 

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Nature Scientific Reports Article

March 15, 2012

Our reserach is featured on Science 360

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March 6, 2012

We have discovered a  fundamental  and well-hidden human behavior. Dexterity sets humans  apart from all other animals and is directly linked to the development of civilization. In this sense, dexterity has been closely connected to higher  order cognitive functions rather than raw sympathetic responses. Contrary to this common belief, our research suggests that in dexterous challenges the sympathetic system appears to dominate behavior, producing 'fight or flight' responses that translate to fast (and counter-productive) pace of attempt. Read more ...

Please read the article online

Press Release

 

CPL

The Computational Physiology Lab (CPL) was founded in 2002 by Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis and since then gained worldwide recognition. At this moment the lab has three research lines and an educational research effort on science ethics. Our focus is on unobtrusive and sustained monitoring of physiological variables. This is embedded imaginatively in psycho-physiological, biomedical, and behavioral paradigms. Sensing is effected either through thermal imaging or wearable transducers. This novel methodological work has spurred psychological and medical discoveries and formed the basis for new applications. Substantial technical sophistication is involved in performing physiological measurements of this kind. Elements from mathematics, computing, statistics, medicine, and physiologiy need to come together. CPL is an interdisciplinary lab and draws additional expertise from partner labs in Mayo Clinic, University of Texas Medical School, Methodist Hospital, and The State University of NewYork (SUNY) at Buffalo. CPL is famous for its work in stress quantification, lie detection, sleep studies, and behavioral gaming. All of them found civilian or military applications. The research of our members has been published in some of the most prestigious science journals and venues, including Nature, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and CHI. We are dedicated to both scientific and engineering excellence and a genuine desire to produce tangible social good.