Controlling an Avatar with Your Brain? Israeli Lab is Trying
From: NoCamels - 10/26/2011
By: Alexandra Mann 

Researchers at the Interdisciplinary Center's Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL)
are developing next-generation of human-computer interfaces. AVL's main goal
is to build virtual worlds and the interfaces that will be used in the
future, investigating human behavior and the human mind in a virtual reality
setting. One of the projects, Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-embodiment,
is researching a way to control a virtual or physical body using only the
mind. The research team is one of the first to use a brain scanner to control
a computer application interactively in real time, which could help severely
disabled patients communicate, according to AVL's Doron Friedman. AVL
researchers also are working on the Being in Augmented Multi-modal
Naturally-networked Gatherings (BEAMING) project, telepresence technology
that aims to produce the feeling of a live interaction using mediated
technologies such as videoconferencing, virtual and augmented reality,
haptics technology, and spatialized audio and robotics. The researchers are
using BEAMING to develop a body language and gesture translation system. 

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http://nocamels.com/2011/10/controlling-an-avatar-with-your-brain-israeli-lab-is-trying/

Links:
Interdisciplinary Center
http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/main/homepage/Pages/homepage.aspx

Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-embodiment
http://vereproject.org/

Being in Augmented Multi-modal Naturally-networked Gatherings (BEAMING)
http://beaming-eu.org/