Unipi Team Leader: Dr. Gaetano Valenza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Social media has transformed the way we communicate through text, images, and videos. Despite recent technological avenues, virtual reality (VR) has not been incorporated in social platforms, hence limiting the comprehensive sharing of an EXPERIENCE.
This project makes real the complex interplay between multisensory perception, emotional responses, past experiences, and perspective of the future also by disentangling the mental representation of self in space and time.
The new Extended-Personal Reality technological and scientific paradigms will move Europe to the future generation of extended social interactions by allowing the public at large to
- create their own VR environments as they do photos and videos without the need for technical skills,
- create virtual simulations eliciting unique psychological, cognitive, neurophysiological, and behavioural responses,
- automatically generate VR environments from neurophysiological data,
- easily manipulate VR environments to communicate and elicit specific emotions,
- manipulate perceived reality to effectively treat psychiatric disorders.
EXPERIENCE embeds advanced artificial intelligence routines merging information from a person’s Extended-Personal Reality to inform manipulation tools including neuromodulation, multisensory biofeedback (audio, video, haptics), and subjective perception of time-space.
EXPERIENCE will produce extremely realistic reproductions of the user's past and may re-administer it by modulating the associated emotional states on demand. Within a large number of research and innovation avenues, EXPERIENCE will prioritise novel diagnosis and treatment of affective disorders commonly associated with altered multisensory perception like depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. A plethora of innovative technological paradigms including gaming, e-learning, and neuroeconomics will be in the commercial exploitations, including the opening of a new market for actually selling EXPERIENCEs
Coordinator
Università di Pisa
Other participants
- CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT, Switzerland
- UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA, Italy
- COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, France
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA, Italy
- KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET, Sweden
- QUATECHNION SL, Spain
Start date 01/01/2021
End date 31/12/2024
Project cost € 4 446 208,75
Project funding € 4 446 208,75
Unipi quota € 994 687,50
Call title H2020-FETPROACT-2020-2
Unipi role Coordinator
Project website www.experience-project.eu