What's been going on with the Green Screening Research
Hello again!!
It has been a couple of weeks full of challenges and great experiences.
My advanced Placement Project is heading to the end (in early September) so we are starting to wrap up things and finish with a very interesting Study by the start of August (more of than in future posts).
Last week I was invited to present this project in the "Second Social Virtual Interaction Workshop" happening at University of Salford, Manchester. It definitely was a great time to meet and share with other researchers and creative people working on Virtual Reality applications for therapeutic, social, film and academics projects.
Here I share my poster as well as the information I presented during my Data Blitz Talk with a brief outline of what we've been working on.
The project Performing Embodiment is focused on the development of Interactive Mixed Reality Technology for the Green Screening Workshops designed for Stroke Survivors
“If you could do anything right now, what would you like to do? Where would you like to be?”
A stroke is a traumatic event that damages localised areas of brain cells. This has significant long-term effects for the victims, which can include the loss of some of their memories. For that reason, Split Britches and In Company Collective created a series of workshops that help stroke survivors to look ahead in their lives by filling in the blank spaces left in their mind with new images and insights through movement and expressive therapies assisted by technology.
Our objective is to develop a real-time configurable digital scenography based in Kinect motion capture that help participants to envisage fantasy worlds of their own making while the rest become the audience, producing a shared experience. This1 permits us to study how embodied performance techniques in mixed-reality environments stimulate Stroke Survivors’ imagination.
With this in mind, we have redesigned the process of the workshop to include the technology in each stage. As a result, the therapeutic effects motivates empowerment, conscience of each body movement possibilities, as well as a direct visualization and interaction with the fantasies.
And finally, some of the challenges overcome have been:
Changing the original static approach, by developing a more robust and interactive technology than chroma key techniques.
And a cost-wise and portable technical infrastructure for the workshop leaders.
