HomeLab

offers a fully functional homelike research environment to facilitate human-centered research in a wide variety of contexts.

Contacts

Alicia Carmichael
734-764-4665
almagior@umich.edu

Location

BioSocial Methods Collaborative Institute for Social Research
426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI

Affiliations
Institute for Social Research

Who We Serve

University of Michigan Researchers

Core Summary

The HomeLab offers a fully functional homelike research environment to facilitate human-centered research in a wide variety of contexts such as: care-at-home, physical rehabilitation, internet of things, aging in place, etc. The lab includes an extensive suite of physiology measurement tools and access to uniquely comprehensive research support across the research lifecycle. Additionally, HomeLab leverages its technological infrastructure and library of props to recreate the sights, sounds, and feeling of other human environments, such as clinic exam rooms.

Service Categories: Education and Training; Human Research

Services

  • Analytical support

  • Customized research life cycle support

  • Data cleaning

  • Data collection

  • IRB support

  • Participant recruitment

  • Protocol development

  • Research assistants trained specifically for HomeLab technology

  • Team Science


Equipment

  • Accelerometers: APDM
  • ADA accommodation
  • Automated facial expression coding: Noldus FaceReader/iMotions Emotient
  • Behavioral coding: Noldus The Observer XT
  • Color tunable lighting for dawn, day, dusk, or night effect
  • Controlled hot water temperature
  • Dedicated servers for short-term data storage
  • EDA/GSR: Shimmer 3 GSR+/BioNomadix EDA & PPG
  • EEG: ABM B-Alert X10
  • EKG: Shimmer ExG/ABM B-Alert X10
  • EMG: Shimmer ExG/BioNomadix EMG2
  • Experiment design & stimuli presentation: E-Prime 2/E-Prime 3/DirectRT/MediaLab/iMotions Core/Tobii Studio
  • Flexible furnishing arrangements
  • Functional appliances and plumbing
  • Grip Strength/Pull Strength: Biopac TSD121C Hand Dynamometer
  • HomeLab
  • Humidity and temperature control
  • Integrated AV recording system
  • Modality equipment and software
  • Optical pulse: Shimmer 3 GSR+/BioNomadix EDA & PPG
  • Residential cable, wireless internet and cell service; U-M internet
  • Respiration: Shimmer ExG
  • Skin temperature: Shimmer Bridge Amplifier + Probe
  • Synchronized, multi-modal data collection: BIOPAC MP150/iMotions/Cedrus StimTracker
  • Video editing: Mac Pro/Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Video recording: Logitech HD Webcam C920