DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

HUMAN BEHAVIOR RESEARCH | news

Recent events have revealed the greatest weakness of surveillance systems. While public space is monitored to a great extend, the data is currently only used to support crime investigation retrospectively. VANAHEIM is a FP7 project with the goal to make surveillance material applicable for prevention. The consortium of eight partners is developing a tool based on visual and auditory cues that will help security and operator personnel to detect unusual behavior when it happens. Thus it shall allow them to act on demand - when their intervention is needed. Our specific task is the identification of behaviour frameworks and the specification of events and the variables which form them - a task not yet tackled in behavior research.

VANAHEIM is a collaborative project funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 - Challenge 2- Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics - under grant agreement n° 248907.