NIW

Natural interactive walking

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA    more  Organization address address: VIA DELL' ARTIGLIERE 8 city: VERONA postcode: 37129 contact info Cognome: FONTANA, FEDERICO Email: send email Telefono: -802709 Fax: -802712
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	1˙830˙700 €
EC contributo	1˙174˙382 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-10-01   -   2011-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA  Organization address address: VIA DELL' ARTIGLIERE 8 city: VERONA postcode: 37129 contact info Cognome: FONTANA, FEDERICO Email: send email Telefono: -802709 Fax: -802712	IT (VERONA)	coordinator	0.00
2	AALBORG UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: FREDRIK BAJERS VEJ 5 city: AALBORG postcode: 159 contact info	DK (AALBORG)	participant	0.00
3	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE  Organization address address: DOMAINE DE VOLUCEAU, ROCQUENCOURT city: LE CHESNAY postcode: 78153 contact info	FR (LE CHESNAY)	participant	0.00
4	ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES UNIVERSITE MC GILL  Organization address address: SHERBROOKE STREET 845 WEST city: MONTREAL postcode: H3A1A4 contact info	CA (MONTREAL)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6  Organization address address: 4 Place Jussieu city: PARIS contact info	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

NIW will investigate possibilities for the integrated and interchangeable use of the haptic and auditory modality in floor interfaces, and for the synergy of perception and action in capturing and guiding human walking. Its objective is to provide closed-loop interaction paradigms, negotiated with users and validated through experiments, enabling the transfer of skills that have been previously learned in everyday tasks associated to walking, and where multi-sensory feedback and sensory substitution can be exploited to create unitary multimodal percepts.

NIW will expose walkers to virtual scenes presenting grounds of different natures, populated with natural obstacles and human artefacts, in which to situate the sensing and display of haptic and acoustic information for interactive simulation, and where vision will play an integrative role. Experiments will measure the ecological validity of such scenarios, investigating also on the cognitive aspects of the underlying perceptual processes. Floor based interfaces will be designed and prototyped by making use of existing haptic and acoustic sensing and actuation devices, comprising interactive floor tiles and soles, with special attention to simplicity of technology. Its applicability to navigation aids such as land-marking, guidance to locations of interest, signalling, warning about obstacles and restricted areas, will be assessed. NIW will nurture floor and shoe designs which may impact the way we get information from the environment.

FET-Open will further benefit from the discovery of cross-modal psychophysical phenomena, the design of ecologically valid walking interaction paradigms, the modelling of motion analysis and multimodal display synthesis algorithms, the study of non visual floor-based navigation aids, and the development of guidelines for the use of existing sensing and actuation technologies to create virtual walking interaction scenarios.