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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

dgromala [at] sfu [dot] ca

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

=='''Projects''' ==

'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

VR Environment that responds to a person's state - Diane Gromala

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

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'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses.- Diane Gromala

A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

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'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

A novel interface for exploring brain data - Steven Barnes & Meehae Song

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

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'''Unconventional Racecar Interfaces'''

[[Image:Abstractchassis.jpg]]

A tool for creating interfaces with racecar drivers - Jack Sam

A person's psychological and physiological states are different when driving a racecar from when commuting to work. The goal of this research method and its tools is to understand the experience of racing and to use this knowledge to design novel interfaces for racecars.

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'''Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins'''

[[Image:Scarletskellen.jpg]]

A novel interface that changes aesthetics based on affective states - Angela Tomizu

Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins is an interactive, multimedia comic book that employs a user modeling approach for affective interaction.

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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

=='''Projects''' ==

'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

VR Environment that responds to a person's state - Diane Gromala

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

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'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses.- Diane Gromala

A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

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'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

A novel interface for exploring brain data - Steven Barnes & Meehae Song

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

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'''Unconventional Racecar Interfaces'''

[[Image:Abstractchassis.jpg]]

A tool for creating interfaces with racecar drivers - Jack Sam

A person's psychological and physiological states are different when driving a racecar from when commuting to work. The goal of this research method and its tools is to understand the experience of racing and to use this knowledge to design novel interfaces for racecars.

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'''Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins'''

[[Image:Scarletskellen.jpg]]

A novel interface that changes aesthetics based on affective states - Angela Tomizu

Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins is an interactive, multimedia comic book that employs a user modeling approach for affective interaction.

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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

=='''Projects''' ==

'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

VR Environment that responds to a person's state - Diane Gromala

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

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'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses.- Diane Gromala

A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

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'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

A novel interface for exploring brain data - Steven Barnes & Meehae Song

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

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'''Unconventional Racecar Interfaces'''

[[Image:Abstractchassis.jpg]]

A tool for creating interfaces with racecar drivers - Jack Sam

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

----

'''Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins'''

[[Image:Scarletskellen.jpg]]

A novel interface that changes aesthetics based on affective states - Angela Tomizu

Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins is an interactive, multimedia comic book that employs a user modeling approach for affective interaction.

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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

=='''Projects''' ==

'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

VR Environment that responds to a person's state - Diane Gromala

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

----

'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses.- Diane Gromala

A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

----

'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

A novel interface for exploring brain data - Steven Barnes & Meehae Song

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

----

'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:Abstractchassis.jpg]]

A novel interface for exploring brain data - Steven Barnes & Meehae Song

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

----

'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

A novel interface for exploring brain data - Steven Barnes & Meehae Song

Scarlet Skellen and the Absent Urchins is an interactive, multimedia
comic book that employs a user modeling approach for affective
interaction.

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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

'''Biomorphic Type™'''

[[Image:Biotype.jpg]]

BioMorphic Typography is Gromala's term for a family of fonts that respond, in real-time, to a user's changing physical states, as measured by a biofeedback device. Rather than one typeface, it is a postmodern pastiche of many different fonts that are continually morphing. So, for example, the font "throbs" as the user's/writer's heart beats, expands as the user breathes, and "spikes" according to galvanic skin response. In this way, users become aware of their autonomic states -- physiological states that usually remain under our conscious awareness. This project is part of a larger initiative, Design for the Senses. The goal is to develop new approaches to experiential design that focus on the senses and the phenomenological history of the body.

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'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

----

'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses. A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

----

'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

'''Biomorphic Type™'''

[[Image:Biotype.jpg]]

BioMorphic Typography is Gromala's term for a family of fonts that respond, in real-time, to a user's changing physical states, as measured by a biofeedback device. Rather than one typeface, it is a postmodern pastiche of many different fonts that are continually morphing. So, for example, the font "throbs" as the user's/writer's heart beats, expands as the user breathes, and "spikes" according to galvanic skin response. In this way, users become aware of their autonomic states -- physiological states that usually remain under our conscious awareness. This project is part of a larger initiative, Design for the Senses. The goal is to develop new approaches to experiential design that focus on the senses and the phenomenological history of the body.

----

'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

----

'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses. A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

----

'''Neurofloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

The goal of the NeuroFloat project is to create an interactive system that uses electroencephalographic (EEG) or other biological signals obtained from the user as a primary input for navigation through an immersive real-time 3-D visualization of various regions of the human brain. One of our primary goals is to create a system where the brain-computer interface is intrinsically related to content of the virtual-reality (VR) environment that it interfaces with. Accordingly, we have chosen to develop multiple VR environments that collectively represent a tour through the early stages of the user’s very own visual system.

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== '''BioMedia Lab''' ==

School of Interactive Arts and Technology(SIAT), Simon Fraser University

Professor: '''Diane Gromala''' (Assoc. Director, SIAT)

The BioMedia Lab is dedicated to creatively exploring
the relationships among art, technology, and the biosciences.

Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

Projects in the BioMedia Lab emphasize the role that aesthetics, design, and representation play in our broad understanding of biotechnology, biomedicine, and related fields. Many projects involve collaboration with SFU colleagues and students in computer science, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and architecture.

'''Biomorphic Type™'''

[[Image:Biotype.jpg]]

BioMorphic Typography is Gromala's term for a family of fonts that respond, in real-time, to a user's changing physical states, as measured by a biofeedback device. Rather than one typeface, it is a postmodern pastiche of many different fonts that are continually morphing. So, for example, the font "throbs" as the user's/writer's heart beats, expands as the user breathes, and "spikes" according to galvanic skin response. In this way, users become aware of their autonomic states -- physiological states that usually remain under our conscious awareness. This project is part of a larger initiative, Design for the Senses. The goal is to develop new approaches to experiential design that focus on the senses and the phenomenological history of the body.

----

'''Meditation Chamber'''

[[Image:MeditationC.jpg]]

The Meditation Chamber is an immersive VR environment that provides users with real-time feedback. Wearing a head-mounted display and biofeedback device, users are guided through a series of relaxation and meditation techniques. In real-time, the audio and visuals are synced to the users' continually changing physiological states (respiration, pulse rate and sweat gland activity (a measure of calmness)). As users' approach meditative states, the hypnotic visuals dissolve to moving mist and darkness as the user relaxes. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, and seen on CNN.

----

'''MeatBook'''

[[Image:Metbook.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses. A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

----

'''NeuroFloat'''

[[Image:neurofloat.jpg]]

A project that provokes users' senses of their visceral responses. A time-based (that is, decaying) slab of meat, constructed as a book, is embedded with various sensors that cause the meat to react and quiver as the viewer approaches it. The reanimated flesh also responds with other movements and sound when users touch it. The next stage of development includes artificial intelligence and explores notions of generative art.

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