Facility Overview

• Dedicated space for experiments with people and technology
• Large experiment room 16 × 7.5 × 4.5m high (120m² floor area)
• Controlled acoustics, climate and lighting
• Isolated experiment control room for:
  • Experiment data acquisition configuration and control
  • Audio, visual and telemetry monitoring during experiments
• Separate pre- and post-experiment interview room
• Separate foyer and waiting room
• All rooms acoustically isolated
• Wheelchair accessible

Experiment Space

• Purpose-designed to be adaptable to many types of experiments
• Unobtrusively instrumented:
  • False wall design obscures and deemphasises sensor locations
• Highly instrumented, with a large number of discrete sensors:
  • Pervasive visual and infra-red spectrum imaging
  • Pervasive depth ranging
  • Pervasive audio pick-up
• Scriptable, computerised environmental controls:
  • Room lighting
  • 256-channel audio
  • 118-channel mic array
  • Scent generator
• Fully functional, accessible kitchen

Data Outputs

• “Out of the box” data generation for experiments
• Real-time ground truth estimates for:
  • Humans / Robots / Objects
• Physical attributes (planned):
  • Identity / Pose (global, skeletal) / Gestures (facial, hand)
• Human attributes (planned):
  • Physiological (heart rate, etc.)
  • Psychological (affect, intent)
• ROS and other interfaces for in-trial data exchange
• Estimates cross-referenced to physiological measurements from wearable sensors