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Social Robot Research @ Media Lab Europe

Vicarious Adrenaline: Team Media Lab Europe

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This project aims to investigate the transference of real adrenaline-based experiences to an observer through a complex inter-modal interaction in real-time.

The visual stimulus provides the primary activation of the experience and hence the context. The use of heartbeat cues and active haptic devices will be incorporated to augment this experience with the aim achieving a strong sense of immersion in high adrenaline sports. An important element in the design is to allow the observer have a degree of control over the experience where key to the sense of immersion is the tangible sense of associated action and perception.

Performance analysis also allows close analysis of both motorcycle and rider in synchronous real-time.

Riders compete with onboard video and accelerometer data retreival and wearing a heart-rate monitor. Data is relayed and an experience is created in MLE where people can experience vicarious adrenaline through a tightly coupled visual, audio and haptic presentation. The result is an experience with an overlay of a heartbeat on the footage, and uses subtle physical stimulus such that the adrenaline and excitement transfers from the rider to the observer

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