Projects
Signal processing algorithms for attention decoding of brain responses to natural stimuli in brain-computer interfaces KU Leuven
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) enable the human brain to interact with machines, opening doors to various high-impact applications. However, most experimental BCI paradigms require the user to concentrate on synthetic and repeated stimuli, inducing fatigue and interfering with natural behavior. This unnatural interaction blocks the widespread usage of BCIs in daily-life situations beyond a few niche clinical applications.
In this ...
Duty and Diligence in Disasters: civil servants and the climate change crisis in Malawi KU Leuven
This research project focuses on the aspirations, motivations and obligations of Malawian civil servants, exploring how they understand and perform their duties in contexts of disaster. Malawi is an aid-dependent and disaster-prone country in southern Africa, among the worst affected by the climate change crisis: floods and droughts have become near-seasonal occurrences, negatively impacting on food security, development and wellbeing. As ...
The effect of teleworking on travel and well-being Ghent University
The current COVID-19 pandemic is likely to trigger more teleworking for a substantial share of employees in the coming years. However, existing studies have not yet come to a consensus on whether or not teleworking results in less overall travel, since fewer commute trips might be compensated for by more or longer trips for other purposes or even by relocating farther from work. Additionally, studies have not yet analysed how people might ...
Dynamic monitoring and risk assessment of chronic fatigue in survivors of childhood cancer. KU Leuven
As survival rates have increased tremendously in children and
adolescents treated for cancer, the long-term sequelae of the
childhood cancer treatment play an increasingly important role in
their daily life quality. A frequently experienced symptom is a chronic
feeling of fatigue, of which the prevalence reaches up to 85% in
childhood cancer survivors.
Although this has a large negative impact ...
Teleworking - Which tasks suit best? Using teleworkers’ work design to understand the relationship between work location and multiple performance outcomes KU Leuven
There are many reasons to expect that home-based telework will remain and make up a considerable part of contemporary labor. Whilst documented positive consequences for both employees (e.g. enhanced work-life balance) and organizations (e.g. lower turnover), practice and policy are still unsure about how to successfully manage teleworking such that it enhances employee performance and scientific research remains inconclusive about how ...
Understanding and alleviating the mismatch between observed and perceived upper limb function after stroke KU Leuven
In people post stroke, we recently reported a mismatch between observed and perceived upper limb function, i.e. a group of patients at six months after stroke showed good upper limb function but low perceived ability. Building on this knowledge, this project will systematically address the subsequent research questions arising from our previous analysis. Through a longitudinal observation of evolution of mismatch between six and 12 months ...
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. University of Antwerp
Understanding cognitive vulnerability for depression: A network analysis of the role of cognitive control in emotion regulation processes Ghent University
Prevention of recurrence of depression is an important societal challenge. There is need for
fundamental research focusing on mechanisms underlying depression vulnerability. Recent studies
show that cognitive control training (CCT) procedures hold potential in improving emotion
regulation (ER) in at-risk and patient samples, providing evidence for the causal involvement of
cognitive control in depression vulnerability. ...
The effect of spasticity on reactive balance in children with cerebral palsy KU Leuven
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in children. CP is caused by a non-progressive lesion to the developing brain. The resulting inability to selectively control muscles, reflex hyper-excitability, and muscle weakness leads to gait and balance impairments. Children with CP have deficits in reactive balance control, which is defined as the ability to maintain balance after an unpredictable disturbance. Reactive ...