The Enactive Torch

The Enactive Torch is being featured in ‘Ad!dict Inspiration’ book #29: ‘in.tangiable.scape.s’

Here is the blurb: Addictlab’s 29th Inspiration book comes out next week! Called In.Tangible.Scape.s, it’s about emerging technologies and the vision of creative people from all over the world on that topic. Supported by IMEC, and collaborations from MOMA NY, Design Incubator centre Singapore, Domus Academy Italy, and many more…

Cover of Ad!dict #27

The article refers to Tom’s presentation of the Enactive Torch at Test.Lab Multimodal in Rotterdam last Feburary.

The book can be previewed here, the Enactive Torch article is on page 69 of the book (page 71 of the electronic preview).

The latest work with the Enactive Torch is now in press for this year’s Enactive Interfaces conference in Pisa, Italy. A PDF copy of the paper can be downloaded here.

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Investigating the role of movement in the constitution of spatial perception using the Enactive Torch

L. Grespan, T. Froese, E. A. Di Paolo, A. K. Seth, A. Spiers and W. Bigge

This paper reports an exploratory study designed to clarify whether the Enactive Torch, a custom-built minimalist distance-to-tactile perceptual supplementation device, can be used to investigate the role of embodied action in the perception of external spatiality. By constraining the kind of exploratory movements available to the participants, we create an experimental setup in which it is possible to study the relationship between bodily degrees of freedom and spatial perception. We present a preliminary investigation of the strategies used by minimally trained participants to locate various objects placed in front of them by engaging in active exploration under constrained conditions.

A slightly updated, extended and better formatted version of the “Toward a Phenomenological Pragmatics of Enactive Perception” publication has been released as Cognitive Science Research Paper 593 by the University of Sussex.

This improved version of the paper can be downloaded from here.