Publications related to Body modification

Method and system for creating an out-of-body experience

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Giulio Rognini, Simon Gallo, Florian Lance

A computer-implemented method for inducing an Out of Body Experience (OBE) in a user through an augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) system, the OBE including an exit state and a disembodiment state, the method comprising the steps of (a) changing the user vi ...

2020

Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 1. The state of the art

Christophe Ancey

This paper outlines the various approaches used to calculate bedload transport. As bedload transport exhibits considerable spatial and temporalvariations, computing the bedload transport rates and morphological changes experienced by streambeds is difficul ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2020

Optical cuff for optogenetic control of the peripheral nervous system

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Léonie Asboth, Frédéric Pierre Gérald Michoud, Loïc Sottas

Objective. Nerves in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) contain axons with specific motor, somatosensory and autonomic functions. Optogenetics offers an efficient approach to selectively activate axons within the nerve. However, the heterogeneous nature o ...

2018

Uncorking the bottleneck of crowding: a fresh look at object recognition

Michael Herzog, Mauro Manassi

In crowding, the perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of clutter. Crowding is usually explained within the framework of object recognition, where processing proceeds in a hierarchical and feedforward fashion from the analysis of low level fe ...

2015

First impressions: Gait cues drive reliable trait judgements

John Christian Thoresen

Personality trait attribution can underpin important social decisions and yet requires little effort; even a brief exposure to a photograph can generate lasting impressions. Body movement is a channel readily available to observers and allows judgements to ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Methods and device to quantify human physical activity pattern

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

The method for analyzing physical activity of a subject comprises: -) measuring at least one of body movement or posture of the subject using at least one sensor; -) defining a plurality of physical activity time series based on at least one of the measure ...

2009

Reconsidering Clark's Theory in CSCW

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Mirweis Sangin

The use of Herbert Clark’s work as a theoretical framework in the Computer Supported Collaborative Work domain is often dismissed or judged as “cooked” and led to a large body of controversy. This article intends to reconsider his contribution and re-exami ...

Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en_Provence2008