The development of digital technologies leads to new types of relationships between the digital world and human consciousness, increasingly inducing or influencing specific types of experiences, such as dreams, transcendental experiences, or derealisation. The varied devices used to induce these experiences, from brain-stimulating magnets to biofeedback-based VR headsets, constitute a new class...
The artwork Hyperdream explores the concept of organicity through the architectural dimension of dreams. A person enters a hypnagogia-like state with the help of a dream machine. We generate hypnagogic landscapes from their recorded brainwaves and reported descriptions of hallucinations. Finally, we conduct an event-related potentials (ERPs) study to investigate the organic response of the...
Massage therapy has been shown to have numerous benefits, including improvements in physical and mental health. In this study, we examined how integrating virtual reality with a robotic massage system could enhance users' social perception of the robot. We implemented a virtual out-of-body experience in the robotic massage system, allowing users to view their own bodies as avatars and observe...