Gonzalez says HomeLab’s realistic testing environment essential to study interactions between behavior and biology

U-M’s HomeLab, housed in ISR’s BioSocial Methods Collaborative, looks and functions like an apartment. But the lab’s technology – including microphones, cameras, and worn sensors – collects multiple types of data simultaneously on participants’ activities. As HomeLab participants perform tasks related to cooking or self-care, for example, collected data include muscle activity, eye tracking, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration rate, along with facial expressions, vocal expressions, and self-physiological assessments.