HFAC Lab

Life at HFAC Lab

1. Ethical and Standard Compliance (ESC)

   We are committed to maintaining highest ESC in the way we conduct our academic and research activities in alignment with APA < http://www.apa.org/>, ISE < http://www.ise.org.in/>, and COPE < https://publicationethics.org/>.

2. Lab safety

   We have fire alarm system to avoid any fire accident and electronic lock on doors to block entry of any intruder in the lab.

3. Social Engagement

   We actively promote 'social engagement' activities. This approach has stood up well. We execute social engagement projects and lab members are able to form an alliance through this platform and participate in socially meaningful activities. Besides various lines of research projects that we are involved in, there are various social initiatives.
   At present we are engaged in social centric activities under a unique banner. Social+(pronounced as social positive) stands as a constructive approach of social engagement in this effort.

Research Facilities

Human factors relates to the interaction of humans and systems. The field of human factors engineering dissects tasks and considers each component in relation to a number of factors specifically focused upon interactions among various components. We study a given context using appropriate tools and instruments by involving human participants.

• Eye Tracker
  The eye tracking facility includes a Tobii TX 300 Eye Tracker and comes with the Tobii Studio™ Eye Tracking Software. This is a state of the art- eye tracking facility that can be used flexibly for a variety of purposes including consumer behavior research, vision research and can collect data pertaining to saccades, correction saccades, fixation duration, pupil size and blinks.
• Video VBOX
  A high-end in-car video system aimed primarily at motorsport professionals and driving instructors. Video VBOX Pro is housed in an aluminium enclosure. It combines a 20Hz VBOX GPS data logger with a 4 camera video system.
• Emotive
  Emotiv EPOC / EPOC+ features 14 EEG channels plus 2 references offering optimal positioning for accurate spatial resolution. Channel names based on the international 10-20 electrode location system are: AF3, F7, F3, FC5, T7, P7, O1, O2, P8, T8, FC6, F4, F8, AF4, with CMS/DRL references in the P3/P4 locations. Emotiv EPOC / EPOC+ uses sequential sampling method, single ADC, at a rate of 128 SPS or 256 SPS* (2048 Hz internal). Emotiv EPOC / EPOC+ operates at a resolution of 14 bits or 16* bit per channel with frequency response between 0.16 – 43 Hz

Testimonials

• "This research group is very friendly in their approach to work and very dedicated to their research activities. I enjoyed my time at HFAC Lab as an intern."

  Asheem Mishra

• "I got insights for research during my interaction with the research group."

  Sankalp

• "The environment is very friendly for research. My time spent here interacting with other scholars was very insightful. I learnt about new research methodologies in Human Machine Interaction and also how to apply and integrate them in practical systems. "

  Kamal Kishan, MIT ADT University, Institute of Design

• "The research environment here is very friendly and motivating and I learnt so much about research methodologies and techniques. Intercting and working along with various other group members of this lab has provided me with knowledge about various domains like driving, HCI etc. Everyone helped me a lot during my time here and overall my entire experience here has been very helpful and knowledgeable. "

  Ishaan Kar, MIT ADT University, Institute of Design