My personal blog- Recoding variables in R with match() February 19, 2012Most books on R start with a short chapter on the language itself before moving on to data analysis. Of course, statistical analysis is the raison d'être of the R ecosystem but the data manipulation and preparation functions are also quite powerful.They can also be a little disconcerting for people used to imperative programming in languages like C, Jav […]
- Election season and statistics January 28, 2012The US primary season is now in full swing and it's as good an occasion as any to play with some data. Some interesting stuff from a statistical angle: Mapping the results from Iowa at Offensive politics (via Revolution Analytics). Some other interesting resources about maps in R: “R” you ready?, Baptiste Coulmont.Matt Asher runs a simulation to look at […]
- Research as usual January 26, 2012Andrew Gelman just posted a follow-up on one of the big psychological research “scandals” of 2011: Daryl Bem's “Feeling the future” paper. Bem relates a series of experiments showing evidence of paranormal “precognition” (for example predicting on which side of the screen erotic pictures are going to appear or remembering some words better before learni […]
- Our programme will resume shortly January 13, 2012It's now over two years since the last time I have posted anything on this blog. Not that I was intensively blogging before, but I had a pretty good excuse. Now that my PhD is out (it should be available soon on the TU Delft repository), I intend to return to blogging. Let's see how it goes… […]
- Recoding variables in R with match() February 19, 2012
Here is a list of my publications as of April 2012.
- Laurans, G., Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P.P.M. (2009). The emotion slider: a self-report device for the continuous measurement of emotion, Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction 2009.
- Laurans, G., Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P.P.M. (2009). Assessing emotion in interaction: some problems and a general framework, Designing Pleasurable Product and Interfaces 2009.
- Laurans, G., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2008). Speaking in tongues – Assessing user experience in a global economy, Design & Emotion 2008, Hong Kong, 6-9 October 2008.
- Laurans, G., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2008). Designing a research tool, Design Research Society, Sheffield, 16-19 July 2008.
- Laurans, G., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2006). Using self-confrontation to measure emotion, Design & Emotion, Gothenburg, 27-29 September 2006.