Descripción del proyecto
Experiencias personalizadas de transformación corporal
Los avances recientes en las tecnologías de detección mejoran la comprensión de la vida a todos los niveles. Los dispositivos de retroalimentación sensorial corporal, junto con la realidad virtual y mixta, posibilitan cada vez más las experiencias de transformación corporal: imagine una ilusión perceptiva como, por ejemplo, la de estar en el cuerpo de un niño. Más allá de experiencias divertidas, las tecnologías de experiencia de transformación corporal pueden acarrear avances de calado en aplicaciones de salud y bienestar. El equipo del proyecto BODYinTRANSIT, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, desarrollará un marco teórico de diseño de experiencias de transformación corporal para la manipulación sensorial individual de las representaciones mentales del cuerpo. El marco se fundamentará en conceptos de la neurociencia de la percepción multisensorial del cuerpo, la modelización de datos, el diseño de la interacción multisensorial encarnada basado en dispositivos ponibles y estudios de campo sobre la vida real y el movimiento.
Objetivo
Our physical body is the interface between ourselves and the world around us. The way we perceive our body, its appearance, configuration and motor abilities shapes our behaviour, emotion and social functioning. New sensor-based and bodily sensory feedback devices, such as those brought by immersive virtual reality, allow creating Body Transformation Experiences (BTE). These perceptual illusions, like being in a child’s body, lead to experience changes in one’s own body. Beyond fun experiences, the new field of BTE engineering brings a significant leap for wellbeing and health applications, as well as for the embodiment of robotic devices and virtual avatars, and smart clothing. However, the neuroscience of core sensory-driven changes in Mental Body Representations (MBR) currently represents piecemeal experiments in very controlled settings that restrict body movement. This hinders the transfer of the basic principles discovered to real-world complex environments and practical problems. Through systematic and iterative research, BODYinTRANSIT will establish a theoretical ‘BTE design framework’ for individualized sensorial manipulation of MBR with long-lasting effects in everyday use contexts. The framework will stand on four scientific pillars to induce, measure, support, personalize and preserve body transformations: 1) neuroscience of multisensory body perception, 2) data modelling of the links between MBR, behaviour, emotion and social functioning, 3) wearable-based embodied multisensory interaction design, and 4) field studies in real-life and on-the-move contexts with physically inactive users, somatic practitioners and users with body image concerns. Tangible outcomes will include design principles, data formats, models, measures and paradigms enabling and guiding BTE engineering innovations. BODYinTRANSIT envisions personalized BTE technologies able to measure MBR and adapt bodily sensory feedback to modify it – individually, online and while on-the-move.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
España