TY - GEN
T1 - Design of Altered Cognition with Reshaped Bodies
AU - Shirota, Kenichiro
AU - Uju, Makoto
AU - Chandra, Yurike
AU - Czech, Elaine
AU - Peiris, Roshan
AU - Minamizawa, Kouta
N1 - Funding Information:
This project is supported by the JST ACCEL Embodied Media project (JPMJAC1404), Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/3/16
Y1 - 2020/3/16
N2 - In this research, we aimed to expand humans' physical ability by reshaping natural physicalities that allow body transformation. By modifying the existing body parts, we proposed a system that changed humans' cognition of reality and their environment, and presented its use case. We conducted a study that explored the use of actions: (1) opening and closing of the pinnas (ears) and (2) pulling of the nose to change humans' body schema and humans' cognition of the environment. The results showed that people were able to perceive changes in the position of the pinnas in three different conditions (100% Open, 50% Open, 0% Open) with high accuracy. We also observed that opening and closing the pinnas could alter the cognition of the sound field, as opposed to the normal ears. Furthermore, we found that the feeling of a nose is extending was felt more by using the system. This finding implied that the modified body schema improved our recognition of the odor source and its position.
AB - In this research, we aimed to expand humans' physical ability by reshaping natural physicalities that allow body transformation. By modifying the existing body parts, we proposed a system that changed humans' cognition of reality and their environment, and presented its use case. We conducted a study that explored the use of actions: (1) opening and closing of the pinnas (ears) and (2) pulling of the nose to change humans' body schema and humans' cognition of the environment. The results showed that people were able to perceive changes in the position of the pinnas in three different conditions (100% Open, 50% Open, 0% Open) with high accuracy. We also observed that opening and closing the pinnas could alter the cognition of the sound field, as opposed to the normal ears. Furthermore, we found that the feeling of a nose is extending was felt more by using the system. This finding implied that the modified body schema improved our recognition of the odor source and its position.
KW - Actuating human body
KW - Body Schema
KW - Embodied Cognition
KW - Human Augmentation
KW - Perception
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U2 - 10.1145/3384657.3384773
DO - 10.1145/3384657.3384773
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85123042903
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference, AHs 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2020 Augmented Humans International Conference, AHs 2020
Y2 - 16 March 2020 through 17 March 2020
ER -