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• Comparing distraction in a cognitive task across voice-only, physical embodied, and social embodied voice user interfaces (VUI).
• Social embodied VUI caused most distraction but was also most liked.
• Voice-only VUI caused the least ...

The concept of calm technology envisions that interaction with technology should consume minimal resources and cause as few distractions as possible. The main goal of our study was to compare different forms of embodiment of Voice User Interfaces ...

Modern games make creative use of First- and Third-person perspectives (FPP and TPP) to allow the player to explore virtual worlds. Traditionally, FPP and TPP perspectives are seen as distinct concepts. Yet, Virtual Reality (VR) allows for flexibility ...

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies create exciting new opportunities for people to interact with computing resources and information. Less exciting is the need for holding hand controllers, which limits applications that demand ...

We propose a concept called “JIZAI Body” that allows each person to live the way they wish to live in society. One who acquires a JIZAI Body can (simultaneously) control (or delegate control) of their natural body and extensions of it, both in physical ...

The feeling of ownership of a virtual body has been a topic of interest in recent years. In order to observe the mechanisms involved in the perception of the body illusion and its manipulation, the use of virtual reality (VR) has been essential. ...

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the effect of different types of self-representations through floating members (hands vs. hands + feet), virtual full body (hands + feet vs. full-body avatar), walking fidelity (static feet, simulated ...$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$

We explore a “Parallel Interaction”, where a user controls several bodies concurrently. To demonstrate this type of interaction we developed “Parallel Ping-Pong”. The user plays ping-pong by controlling 2 robot arms with a Virtual Reality (VR) ...

Previous research has demonstrated that Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs) are capable of reconstructing maps from news corpora (Louwerse & Zwaan, 2009) and novels (Louwerse & Benesh, 2012). The capacity for reproducing maps is ...

Interoception, or the process of receiving, accessing and appraising internal bodily signals, is critical for health and well-being. However, people can sometimes become unaware of bodily sensations, for instance when they experience ...

• Playing videogames is associated with reduced awareness of bodily sensations.
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Synthetic Biology and Artificial Intelligence are two relevant fields in modern science. Together with Robotics, they have either practical scopes, or can be used for modeling organisms’ features and behaviors. The recent Synthetic Biology ...

In this work, we build upon the Active Inference (AIF) and Predictive Coding (PC) frameworks to propose a neural architecture comprising a generative model for sensory prediction, and a distinct generative model for motor trajectories. ...

This workshop explores socially expressive technology design using collaborative principles of theater, dance and music. Building on shared roots of making something together, technologies (including virtual agents, physical devices, storytelling ...

In an age where circumstance makes the need and plausibility of digital cultural mediation a reality, it becomes necessary to consider the effects such mediation has on pedagogical process. It is our purpose through work with  The Plavana Project, to ...

Embodiment and affect are understudied in information science work to date. Literature that engages with embodied information interactions typically focuses on physical bodies, while work on affect largely centers people's emotional experiences ...

Modern wearable devices, especially those aimed at enabling Augmented and Virtual Reality, permit an increasing number of ways to translate data about us and our surroundings into sensory impressions. This is especially useful for geospatial data –...

In the context of raising awareness to assistive technologies, we propose a gaming experience that allows users to embody having a visual impairment. By occluding the user’s vision and providing spatialized audio and passive haptic feedback, ...

Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool to promote motor (re)learning in healthy users and brain-injured patients. However, in current VR-based motor training, movements of the users performed in a three-dimensional space are usually visualized ...

‘Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome’ is an immersive interactive VR docufiction exploring the drowning and rescue of Israeli rowing champion Jasmine Feingold. In 2009, Feingold lost consciousness and capsized while rowing in Tel Aviv's Ha'Yarkon River. ...

Smart displays augment the concept of a smart home speaker with a touchscreen. Although the visual modality is added in this device variant, the virtual agent is still only represented through auditory output and remains invisible in most current ...

In this paper, we argue that embodiment can play an important role in the evaluation of systems developed for Human Computer Interaction. To this end, we describe a simulation platform for building Embodied Human Computer Interactions (EHCI). This ...