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Colloquium: Body Representation in Immersive Virtual Reality, Prof. Mel Slater (University of Barcelona, Spain and UCL, UK), Monday, Oct 3, 2011, 11:00-12:00 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:
Body Representation in Immersive Virtual Reality
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Speaker: Prof. Mel Slater |
Abstract:
Computer programs can be written that digitally represent and simulate
physical spaces and events. Immersive virtual reality systems provide
a medium whereby the digital representation can be transformed into a
stream of sense data (visual, auditory, haptic) that is displayed to
people, and with which people can interact via body tracking systems.
Typically virtual reality has been thought of as a way to place people
inside representations of such simulations, where they have the
feeling of being in the virtual place, and can carry out actions, and
respond to events there. However, it is becoming clear that virtual
reality can be used in a way that has hardly been explored up to now -
not only can the sense of place be transformed, but also aspects of
the sense of oneself, in particular the appearance of the body. In
this talk we will describe several experiments that show that virtual
reality is a very powerful technology for body substitution, that is
giving people the strong feeling that their body has been replaced by
a virtual body. This opens up the door for interesting new exploitation
of this technology for many applications, as well as for the basic
science of understanding how the brain represents the body.
Short Bio:
Mel Slater is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain
and Prof. of Virtual Environments at UCL where he maintains a small
group of researchers. He founded the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics research group in the
Department of Computer Science at UCL and obtained two rounds of
funding to install the virtual reality Cave system. He was a UK EPSRC
Senior Research Fellow from 1999 to 2004. Twenty six of his PhD
students have obtained their PhDs since 1989. In 2005 he was awarded
the Virtual Reality Career Award by IEEE Virtual Reality ‘In
Recognition of Seminal Achievements in Engineering Virtual Reality.’
He leads the eventLab at UB. He holds a European Research Council
grant TRAVERSE on the specific topic virtual embodiment, and the
general topic of a new area of application of virtual reality based on
this theme.
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