Project description FET Open Show the project objective Hide the project objective NIW will investigate possibilities for the integrated and interchangeable use of the haptic and auditory modality in floor interfaces, and for the synergy of perception and action in capturing and guiding human walking. Its objective is to provide closed-loop interaction paradigms, negotiated with users and validated through experiments, enabling the transfer of skills that have been previously learned in everyday tasks associated to walking, and where multisensory feedback and sensory substitution can be exploited to create unitary multimodal percepts. NIW will expose walkers to virtual scenes presenting grounds of different natures, populated with natural obstacles and human artefacts, in which to situate the sensing and display of haptic and acoustic information for interactive simulation, and where vision will play an integrative role. Experiments will measure the ecological validity of such scenarios, investigating also on the cognitive aspects of the underlying perceptual processes. Floor based interfaces will be designed and prototyped by making use of existing haptic and acoustic sensing and actuation devices, comprising interactive floor tiles and soles, with special attention to simplicity of technology. Its applicability to navigation aids such as landmarking, guidance to locations of interest, signalling, warning about obstacles and restricted areas, will be assessed. NIW will nurture floor and shoe designs which may impact the way we get information from the environment. FET-Open will further benefit from the discovery of cross-modal psychophysical phenomena, the design of ecologically valid walking interaction paradigms, the modeling of motion analysis and multimodal display synthesis algorithms, the study of non visual floor-based navigation aids, and the development of guidelines for the use of existing sensing and actuation technologies to create virtual walking interaction scenarios. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciences Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.8.0 - FET Open Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE Address Via palladio 8 33100 Udine Italy See on map Region Nord-Est Friuli-Venezia Giulia Udine Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Francesca Baciga (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY Canada EU contribution € 0,00 Address 845 sherbrooke street west H3A0G4 Montreal See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Olga Naiberguer (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data AALBORG UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 276 200,00 Address Fredrik bajers vej 7k 9220 Aalborg See on map Region Danmark Nordjylland Nordjylland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gitte Kjær Christensen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE France EU contribution € 382 782,00 Address Domaine de voluceau rocquencourt 78153 Le chesnay cedex See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Jean-Paul GUILLOIS (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 France EU contribution € 251 400,00 Address Place jussieu 4 75252 Paris See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Stéphanie ROSSARD (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA Italy EU contribution € 208 000,00 Address Via dell artigliere 8 37129 Verona See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Verona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Giacomina Bruttomesso (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
