Title
Seeing into the brain of an actor with mocap and fNIRS.
Abstract
This paper introduces the idea of using wearable, multi-modal body and brain sensing, in a theatrical setting, for neuroscientific research. Wearable motion capture suits are used to track the body movements of two actors while they enact a sequence of scenes together. One actor additionally wears a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based headgear to record the activation patterns on his prefrontal cortex. Repetitions in the movement data are then used to automatically segment the fNIRS data for further analysis. This exploration reveals that the semi-structured and repeatable nature of theatre can provide a useful laboratory for neuroscience, and that wearable sensing is a promising method to achieve this. This is important because it points to a new way of researching the brain in a more natural, and social, environment than traditional lab-based methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3267242.3267284
UbiComp '18: The 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Singapore Singapore October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wearable, mocap, fNIRS, theatre, neuroscience
Motion capture,Computer vision,Computer science,Wearable computer,Prefrontal cortex,Artificial intelligence,Wearable sensing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5967-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonia F de C Hamilton1719.99
Paola Pinti261.49
Davide Paoletti300.34
Jamie Ward402.03