Noldus

General Information

For over 28 years, Noldus Information Technology has been a leading developer of measurement and analysis systems for behavioral research. We are experts in computer-aided observation, image processing, signal analysis, and pattern recognition. These disciplines are the foundation of innovative software and hardware with which our customers, working in more than 10,000 organizations in 100 countries, perform ground-breaking research in the fields of biology, psychology, marketing, human factors and ergonomics, and healthcare.

Our headquarters are in Wageningen, The Netherlands, and we have branch offices across Europe, the United States, and China. Our company culture is characterized by a passion for innovation, a pro-active attitude, and customer orientation. The success of our company is determined to a large extent by the enthusiasm and creativity of our approx. 160 employees.

 

Role in AIMS-2-TRIALS

In close cooperation with another partner of the team, DEMCON, we will develop an Infant Monitoring System, which will be able to measure the activities of infants, who may go on to receive an autism diagnosis, through ‘baby suits’ which can be worn in the home environment. This system will also securely transmit the data to the researchers’ lab. We will develop a complete remote data acquisition, storage and analysis system to enable this. Current techniques require infants to be brought into the lab, which means that their behaviour may not be natural and that measurements can only be for relatively short period of time. With the new techniques that we will develop, researchers will be able to get much better insight into the behaviour of the infants.