GEISTHuman-Centered Information Systems · TU Clausthal

Research topic

Wearable sensing

Body-worn sensors, from textiles to earables, that capture physiology and movement in everyday life.

Research · 5

Projects

  • J!NS MEME academic prototype with sensor wiring on a glass table

    ActiveKeio · TU Clausthal

    Augmented Perception

    Smart glasses and wearables as a sensing and actuation platform that sits directly at the human senses.

    GEIST lab

  • Dancers on stage during the Boiling Mind performance

    ActiveKeio · TU Clausthal

    Digitalized Emotion

    Making emotional states measurable, transferable and shareable, from audience physiology at live performances to digital empathy.

    GEIST / Embodied Media

  • Dancers on stage during the Boiling Mind performance

    ArchiveKeio · GEIST

    Boiling Mind

    Linking audience physiology and choreography: dancers react to the heart and skin signals of 98 spectators across three performances.

    GEIST / Embodied Media

  • Concert audience at the Frisson Waves performance

    ArchiveKeio · GEIST

    Frisson Waves

    Detecting, triggering and sharing aesthetic chills in a wave across the audience of a classical concert.

    GEIST / Embodied Media

  • Head-mounted display with an eye-tracking camera add-on

    ArchiveKeio · GEIST

    Open Eyewear

    An open eyewear platform to quantify social and cognitive functions in real life and to design interventions that improve behaviour (JST PRESTO).

    GEIST lab

Publications · 14

Recent publications

All 14 publications

  1. Abstraction Beats Realism: Physiological Visualizations Enhance Arousal Synchrony in VR Concert Recreations

    Xiaru Meng, Yulan Ju, Matthias Hoppe, Jiawen Han, Yan He, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze

    AHs 2026conference

  2. Embodied Responses to Posthuman Performance: A Mixed-Methods Study of Physiological and Emotional Audience Reactions

    Kai Kunze, Mingyang Xu, Danyang Peng, Lucas Ogasawara de Oliveira, Rose Shao, Xiaru Meng, Matthias Hoppe, Giulia Barbareschi

    AHs 2026conference

  3. A Placebo Concert: The Placebo Effect for Visualization of Physiological Audience Data during Experience Recreation in Virtual Reality

    Xiaru Meng, Yulan Ju, Christopher Changmok Kim, Yan He, Giulia Barbareschi, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze, Matthias Hoppe

    CHI 2025conference

  4. Innermost echoes: Integrating real-time physiology into live music performances

    Danny Hynds, George Chernyshov, Dingding Zheng, Aoi Uyama, Juling Li, Kozue Matsumoto, Michael Pogorzhelskiy, Kai Kunze, Jamie A Ward, Kouta Minamizawa

    TEI 2024conference

  5. Frisson Waves: Exploring Automatic Detection, Triggering and Sharing of Aesthetic Chills in Music Performances

    Yan He, George Chernyshov, Jiawen Han, Dingding Zheng, Ragnar Thomsen, Danny Hynds, Muyu Liu, Yuehui Yang, Yulan Ju, Yun Suen Pai, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze, Jamie A. Ward

    IMWUT 2022journal

  6. Boiling Mind: Amplifying the Audience-Performer Connection through Sonification and Visualization of Heart and Electrodermal Activities

    Moe Sugawa, Taichi Furukawa, George Chernyshov, Danny Hynds, Jiawen Han, Marcelo Padovani, Dingding Zheng, Karola Marky, Kai Kunze, Kouta Minamizawa

    TEI 2021conference

  7. Using Smart Eyewear to Sense Electrodermal Activity While Reading

    Christopher Changmok Kim, Jiawen Han, Dingding Zheng, George Chernyshov, Kai Kunze

    UbiComp/ISWC Adj. 2021workshop

  8. Frisson Waves: Sharing Frisson to Create Collective Empathetic Experiences for Music Performances

    Yan He, George Chernyshov, Dingding Zheng, Jiawen Han, Ragnar Thomsen, Danny Hynds, Yuehui Yang, Yun Suen Pai, Kai Kunze, Kouta Minamizawa

    SIGGRAPH E-Tech 2021demo

  9. Boiling Mind-A Dataset of Physiological Signals during an Exploratory Dance Performance

    Zhuoqi Fu, Jiawen Han, Dingding Zheng, Moe Sugawa, Taichi Furukawa, Chernyshov George, Hynds Danny, Padovani Marcelo, Marky Karola, Kouta Minamizawa, Jamie A Ward, Kai Kunze

    AHs 2021conference

  10. Continuous alertness assessments: Using EOG glasses to unobtrusively monitor fatigue levels In-The-Wild

    Benjamin Tag, Andrew W Vargo, Aman Gupta, George Chernyshov, Kai Kunze, Tilman Dingler

    CHI 2019conference

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