Lund University Humanities Lab

Lund University Humanities Lab is an interdisciplinary core facility for research infrastructure, technology and training. We host research instruments (see Equipment and resources), methodological know-how, and data management expertise. Lab activities target issues of communication, culture, cognition and learning, but many projects are interdisciplinary and conducted in collaboration with other disciplines, or with stakeholders in society such as education, cultural institutions, or industry. We have partners and collaborators locally, nationally, and internationally. The Lab currently has 500+ users in approx. 60 ongoing projects. Half of the users come from Humanities, and the rest from other faculties at LU or externally.

We are connected to other LU infrastructures such as LUNARC for scientific computing, Lund Bio Imaging Centre, etc., and are a member of the strategic research area e-Science (eSSENCE). We are a certified Knowledge Centre in the European consortium for language technology ERIC CLARIN, and a member of the national consortium Språkbanken Clarin. The Humanities lab is also a member in the national research infrastructures Infravis (infravis.se) and SweDigArch (swedigarch.se).

LU Humanities Lab also hosts the national research infrastructure Huminfra funded by the Swedish Research Council, which links 11 universities and organisations to provide information about and access to national resources. Huminfra is also coordinating institution for DARIAH-SE, the Swedish national node of DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), a Pan-European infrastructure that supports digital research and collaboration in the arts and humanities.

Further details are found in the Annual reports 2011-2024: http://www.humlab.lu.se/about/annual-report/

Facilities: an anechoic chamber; a professional studio for sound and film production, experimental rooms at the Centre for Languages & Literature and at LUX.

Equipment: audio- and video recording equipment (incl. a wide variety of microphones, 4k-videocameras, soundmixer (analog Rupert Neeve 5088), videomixingsystem (from Blackmagic Design) and several workstations for editing); electromagnetic articulography (AG501); a BioPac system (MP150 with modules GSR100C, ECG100C, RSP100C and DA100C) ; a archive  server for language data; EEG (EasyCap 64 channel); eye-tracking (ca 35 of different kinds; Tobii, EyeLink); motion capture (Qualisys optical motion capture system consisting of 24 mocap- and 2 videocameras); 3D laser scanners (1 Faro Focus phaseshift laserscanner; 2 NextEngine triangulation 3D-scanners, an Artec Eva structured light scanner); differential GPS-systems (Altus APS3 base/rover system); virtual reality (VR) facilities including 1 Varjo VR-2 and 1 Varjo VR-3 headsets, Quest Pro, other standalone headsets and a cube (located at IKDC).

Expertise: a methodologist/statistician; research engineers; a programmer; a archive server manager; a systems manager, system developers, plus specific expertise on technologies including text, language, AI and data management related technology.

The archive server hosts annotated and meta described multimodal language data in a mid-term perspective. https://www.humlab.lu.se/equipment-expertise/archive-server/

The Lab provides access to experimental facilities, to a range of sensor-based technologies, to computational resources needed to work with the data; the Lab provides training in the technologies at hand and the associated methods in the form of long (PhD) courses, and shorter group tutorials on demand. We also provide consultation on a range of methodological issues.

Director chairing a steering committee