Projects 2025

In our projects we apply swarmcreativity to increase happiness of living beings. This means to improve connectivity between humans, animals, and plants. In our projects we will form COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks) to create tools to measure and improve communication between humans, humans and animals, and humans and plants.

See www.biolingo.org for an overview.

Connecting people

Connecing with the right people, sharing your values and interests, will increase your groupflow and happiness. Projects in this field are using AI to measure your happiness from your emotions measured from text,  smartphones, face expressions, voice, and body posture.

Connecting people with animals

Connecting people with animals to understand each other and communicate better will increase both the happiness and wellbeing of your pets, such as dogs and cats, and horses and cows and yourself. Projects in this domain will be using videos, voice, and other sensor data tracking animals to compare it to ground truth such as audio and image files labeled with the emotions and health status of animals. We will also be using unsupervised learning to further identify mood states of animals that we do not know yet.

Connecting people with plants

Connecting with nature is good for you. Projects in this area will help you communicate with your house plants. In past work we have developed specialized hardware that measures the "brainwaves" of plants, similar to EEGs of human brains. These "plant action potentials" are then fed as input to machine learning models to predict human mood.  We will for instance use plants such as basil as sensors to measure human emotions and stress in a non-intrusive way.

Project ideas 2025

comparing network structure, content, and performance (UPM SQA course)

using the UPM SQA course WhatsApp data conduct a social network analysis and content analysis to predict performance of the teams, extending the work from last semester’s COIN seminar team.

Measuring the impact of Elon Musk (Twitterfeed, LinkedIn, etc)

Doing a content analysis of Elon Musk’s Twitter and other social media utterances, predict it’s influence on macroeconomic indicators in the US and Germany

measuring horse/dog (other animal) personality through their emotions

develop a personality test to measure the personality of animals based on their response to external triggers, similar to “puppy kindergarden”
https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/duke-puppy-kindergarten

measuring impact of animals on plants with sensors

similar to the response of plants to human emotions, measure the response of plants to the proximity of animals using the voltage sensors previously developed (could be plant eaters like cows, horses, etc. or other animals)

measuring entanglement of Jazz musicians

Using the video data previously recorded from the Jazzaar jazz festival measure entanglement of musicians based on the synchronicity of their body movement, and correlate it with the plant data recorded with the plant spiker box.

create visualization of plant action potentials for Phaenomena exhibit

for the phaenomena exhibition https://www.phaenomena.ch planned in Zurich in spring 2026 develop a visualization system for the exhibition.

measuring plant stress with sensors

use the plant sensors previously develop to compare sensor reading differences between healthy plants, and plants infected with parasites and fungi.

Evaluation

Impressum

Seminar Papers of previous years

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