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NeuroBodyGame

2010
by Rachel Zuanon and Geraldo Lima

[NeuroBodyGame] consists of a wearable computer that allows the user to play games using their brain signs. It is a wireless interface for biometric interaction with games loaded into the system. Both games and wearable computer react to the emotion of the user at the moment of interaction. The playability can get easier or more difficult according to the emotional state of the user at that very moment. The wearable computer interprets the user’s emotion and reacts to it by changing the colors (back and front) and by applying vibrations (back). A really calm user, extremely careful and focused will have its playability enhanced and the NeuroBodyGame will mostly react by showing the color blue. If the user is just calm and focused, the color displayed is green. A tense user, if a bit unfocused or even nervous, will have his playability worsen and the NeuroBodyGame will react to it by turning into yellow and applying a soft vibration in the area of the back. However, a really tense and unfocused user will have its playability worsen and the NeuroBodyGame will react by changing its color to red and by vibrating really intensively.

Bio:
Rachel Zuanon holds a PhD and a MA in Communication and Semiotics (PUC-SP).  She also has a BA in Visual Arts (UNESP-SP). She is a researcher and professor at Anhembi Morumbi (UAM) in the MA in Design and the coordinator of the “Design of the Physical-Digital Interfaces” research group at the same program. She was the coordinator of the BA in Digital Design and in the Specialization in Hypermedia both at UAM. She was a Professor at PUC-SP in the Body Languages department. As an artist and designer, she presented her "NeuroBodyGame -Computador Vestível Afetivo Co-evolutivo #4" was presented at File 2010. In 2009, her "BioBodyGame - Computador Vestível Afetivo Co-evolutivo #3” was presented at Itau Cultural. In 2007 she received the award Rumos Arte Cibernética given by this same institution for her “Objeto Relacional Biocibernético - Computador Vestível Afetivo Co-evolutivo #2". In 2003, she received the honor of Rumos Itaú Pesquisa.

Geraldo Lima holds a BA in Industrial design from UEMG – Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais. He is a fashion designer specialized in  Fashion, Art and Culture. He also holds an MA in Design from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi. Fashion and art have always been present in his life. He has already designed for Alphorria, Disritmia. He is responsible for both the creation and development of Uranio.  Lima researches the relations of the visual impaired and fashion. Among his costume design, it is possible to highlight:  “Criação” do Grupo Corpo, “Z”, “dualidade.br”, among others, for ballet, o Balé da Cidade de São Paulo. For the theater, his most famous designs were:  “Pobre super homem”, directed by Luis Otávio Gonçalves, and “Don Juan”, directed by  Roberto Lage. He has already shown his work at  Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, with the instalation  “Olhar Tátil”.