The BMS Lab

To further integrate technology in the educational activities of the University of Twente, the BMS Lab created a VR class. In the class students familiarise themselves with VR as a research method, by using and modifying VR environments. 

TechEthos, a project funded by the European Union, addresses the ethical considerations associated with upcoming technologies expected to have substantial socio-economic implications. The primary objective of TechEthos is to promote "ethics by design," embedding ethical and societal values into the early stages of designing and developing new technologies. To this end, together with reserachers from the BMS Philosophy department, we developed a web tool, to aid in the design process.

Furhat is engineered to enhance human tife quality through sociat interactions, facial expressions, and movements that replicate human behaviour. Hence, there is a compelling argument for the incorporation of socially assistive robots in settings and contexts where they hold the potential to bring substantial benefits to humans, especially within critical sectors like healthcare. The study aimed to create an effective persuasive system using Furhat to enhance patient adherence.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports introduced CoronaMelder, a COVID-19 contact tracing app utilising the Google/Apple Exposure Notification framework. The study investigated whether CoronaMelder can effectively support the traditional contact tracing efforts undertaken by public health authorities. 

BMS reserachers worked on expolring the brain acitivity of students in a classroom setting. The students were following different styles of lecturing, form a more passive style where they only listened to the lecturer, to an interactive one where they were actively participating.