Objective Despite the wide use of visual and haptic texture in industrial design, architecture and art to convey information (e.g. about the atmosphere or safety of buildings, or the strength, quality, or intended users of objects), there is virtually no systematic research on the emotional qualities and expectations associated with specific textures. SYNTEX aims at providing methods and a theory to objectively measure, model and predict such psychological effects.SYNTEX will have substantial impact on product design in its most general sense. Designers of buildings (architects), consumer products, interfaces of computer programs, internet pages, and games, will profit from the ability to use texture in a predictable way to communicate additional information and achieve intended psychological effects.SYNTEX thus aims at the development of- a new measurement method to 'calculate' the degree to which certain feelings or emotions are associated with a particular texture in an individual subject.- a new investigative method for the modeling of human interpretation of visual and haptic textures.- a method to synthesize artificial textures specified to evoke certain feelings and emotions.The whole project is arranged around three cycles of psychological and neurophysiological experiments combined with a concurrent development of a computational model. The modeling will employ a new approach that is driven by mathematics; Starting from a model based on existing knowledge (on texture perception) we will identify the major mathematical gaps (rather than the gaps in psychological understanding) and design experiments to fill these gaps.Fuzzy logic will be incorporated to account for the inherent fuzziness of emotions. The consortium consists of a well-balanced group with backgrounds in psychology, neurophysiology, mathematics, machine vision and product design, thus combining the interdisciplinary knowledge required to achieve the goals. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer visionsocial sciencespsychologynatural sciencesmathematicsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence Keywords Visual Visual and haptic texture and haptic texture Programme(s) FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) NEST-2005-Path-IMP - Measuring the Impossible Call for proposal FP6-2005-NEST-PATH See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator PROFACTOR PRODUKTIONSFORSCHUNGS GMBH Address Im stadtgut a2 Steyr-gleink Austria See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FUNDACIÓN PRODINTEC Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Edificio centros tecnológicos. parque científico y tecnológico de gijón. Gijón See on map Links Website Opens in new window FUNDERMAX GMBH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Klagenfurter straße 87 - 89 St.veit an der glan See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Spui 21 1012 WX Amsterdam See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hanzeplein 1 Groningen See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Leeds Leeds See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Altenbergerstrasse 69 Linz See on map Links Website Opens in new window
