VERE
Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Organization address
address: Passeig de la Vall d Hebron 171 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Spain [ES] |
| Totale costo | 12˙429˙481 € |
| EC contributo | 9˙498˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2009-5 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-06-01 - 2015-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Organization address
address: Passeig de la Vall d Hebron 171 contact info |
ES (Barcelona) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CONSORCI INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIONS BIOMEDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER
Organization address
address: CALLE ROSSELLO 149 PUERTA BJS contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Organization address
address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 contact info |
CH (LAUSANNE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA
Organization address
address: VIA ARDEATINA 306 contact info |
IT (Roma) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
GUGER TECHNOLOGIES OG
Organization address
address: HERBERSTEINSTRASSE 60 contact info |
AT (GRAZ) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Organization address
address: Acad. G. Bonchev Block 4 contact info |
BG (Sofia) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DE ROVISCO PAIS 1 contact info |
PT (LISBOA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER (IDC) HERZLIYA
Organization address
address: Kanfei Nesharim contact info |
IL (HERZLIYA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET MAINZ
Organization address
address: SAARSTRASSE 21 contact info |
DE (MAINZ) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA
Organization address
address: PIAZZA MARTIRI DELLA LIBERTA 33 contact info |
IT (PISA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 12 |
UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 2 SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES
Organization address
address: PLACE EUGENE BATAILLON 2 contact info |
FR (MONTPELLIER) | participant | 0.00 |
| 13 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Organization address
address: GOWER STREET contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 14 |
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL
Organization address
address: COLDHARBOUR LANE FRENCHAY CAMPUS contact info |
UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 0.00 |
| 15 |
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Organization address
address: HERZL STREET 234 contact info |
IL (REHOVOT) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
VERE aims to carry out research on the fusion of the human body with virtual or physical surrogates. By fuse we mean that human participants would operate under the illusion that the virtual body is their own, or that they are actually in the physical space of the real world in a robotic body that they perceive as their own. As well as providing a radical extension of traditional virtual reality through the notion of virtual body ownership, VERE would pioneer remote body ownership, that is where the participant stays in a reclining and immobile position but operates a virtual or physical remote body via a brain and body computer interface (BBCI). This BBCI uses real-time EEG and other physiological data to infer participant intentions, and exploits machine learning to drive the virtual or robotic body. Two exemplary applications would be developed during the research: one in the context of gender-based domestic violence and the other to give physically impaired people such as tetraplegics the ability to operate again in the physical world through their surrogate. Both applications will be with domain professionals. There would be up to two further applications during the course of the project, managed by external groups who would submit proposals to the VERE consortium to exploit the technology for other unforeseen applications. The proposal is organised as eight scientific workpackages underpinned by one on the science of body ownership led by a team of cognitive neuroscientists. The work is informed by consideration of its ethical implications, and provides a testing ground for experiments in neuroethics. Moreover the work clearly has implications for the notion of self and consciousness, and one WP will be devoted to these issues. The proposal has been formed by a highly interdisciplinary group. It also draws on earlier FET projects IMMERSENCE and PRESENCCIA but opens the door to a radically new form of human-computer confluence with beneficial applications.