What's going on
My current research interests are related with cognitive sciences and immersive virtual reality, often with a link with artistic practices.
I work at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, doing research between the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurosciences and the Immersive Interaction Group. I am still finishing my phd at the EVENT Lab, at University of Barcelona under the direction of Mel Slater.
Current Projects
- My main research project at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne studies the subjective experience of architectonic space and its relation with bodily self-consciousness as it is studied in cognitive neuroscience.
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My PhD at the
EVENT Lab is concerned with the use of immersive virtual reality to develop interactive stories.
The outcome of the PhD exploits the fact that people in an immersive virtual reality tend to respond as if what they were experiencing was real to propose a new principle of interaction allowing to create a new medium as narrative as a movie and at the same time interactive as a videogame.
Technically, it involves a radically new kind of statistical representation of causal relations in non-linear environments, something which can be used to coordinate situated agents in order to achieve complicated plans such as movie scripts.
Publications
Some of my previous work is available in this list of publications.
Other Resources
I've developed a tutorial to learn how to use HALCA, a library for character animation, and do so in XVR, a rendering tool. The files for it can be found here.