In the next few months I will be setting up an Affective Computing lab. The aim is to quantify the effects of assistive systems and of gamification on both working and learning processes.
I did some research on equipment, but the spectrum is very broad. Alone with encephalography I could spend my complete budget, as there are devices for € 700 up to above € 80.000.
So I would appreciate some recommendations from researchers who have been in a similar situation or currently work in a lab which they think is well-equipped.
This is better. It's SDK supports to develop many application which can use for affective computing researches.
https://emotiv.com/
For very cheap equipment I'd go for cooking hacks and arduino: they have most sensors you'll look for, like ECG, EMG, EEG, body temperature, respiration, etc.
Other options are: groove sensors, Bitalino.
A more expensive solution is openBCI: http://www.openbci.com/
Agree, Arduino is cheap. I like it, my combination was Arduino + Max/MSP + ASUS Xtion PRO.
For body and facial motion sensing, I'm using VICON 8- camera system and optitrack Expression(6 camera).
You have also Biopac, which is very reliable.
https://www.biopac.com/
Dear Fernando, Janaka and Gabriele,
thanks for the replies. I was not aware of OpenBCI, that is interesting. Apart from encephalography I will also integrate facial analysis and GSR. Any recommendations for that? And do you know good integration solutions (software) for the data?
For the GSR, Shimmer seems the best. A cheaper solution would be Arduino with a groove gsr sensor (but I don't think it's suitable for a high precision work) or arduino with the gsr of cooking hacks.
A pdf of shimmer indicating also a software: http://www.shimmersensing.com/assets/images/content/case-study-files/Emotional_Response_27July2015.pdf
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