Landmine Detection with sound feedback
- Members: Landmine Detection with sound feedback
- Start Date: June 2008
We have brought together an international cross-discipline academic-industrial consortium to improve the detection rates of hand-held landmine detectors, by providing rich acoustic feedback to the human de-miner. The consortium consists of:
- University of York, U.K. Dept of Electronics (human interfaces & sonification)
- University of York, U.K. Post-war Reconstruction & Development Unit (PRDU)
- ERA Technology, Leatherhead, U.K. (manufacturers of mine detectors)
- University of Bielefeld, Neuroinformatics group (sonification & modelling)
- KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, Dept of Speech, Music & Hearing (psychoacoustics & user testing)
- Norwegian People's Aid (practical de-mining and mine research)
We are currently applying to the EU for a Marie Curie Research Training Network to provide 4 years of funding to allow young researchers to specialise in this area and travel between the consortium's institutions. We are also applying to EPSRC for a UK-based research project to establish how many sounds (and in what format) a human being can listen to simultaneously, whilst involved in a de-mining task.