Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)
This paper will philosophically extend Julian Leff’s Avatar therapy paradigm (AT) for voice-like hallucinations that was initially proposed for treatment-resistant Schizophrenia patients into the realm of gesture-enhanced embodied cognition and Virtual Reality (VR), entitled g+TA (gesture-enhanced A...
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doaj-ad9118b3dea540ac9a64bb4e402dd85c2021-09-05T21:02:08ZengSciendoKairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science1647-659X2020-12-01231328710.2478/kjps-2020-0004Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)Gerner Alexander Matthias0Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.This paper will philosophically extend Julian Leff’s Avatar therapy paradigm (AT) for voice-like hallucinations that was initially proposed for treatment-resistant Schizophrenia patients into the realm of gesture-enhanced embodied cognition and Virtual Reality (VR), entitled g+TA (gesture-enhanced Avatar Therapy). I propose an philosophy of technology approach of embodied rhetorics of triadic kinetic “actions” in the sense of Charles Sanders Peirce that transforms the voice hallucination incorporated by an avatar- and that can confront acousmatic voice-like hallucinations with a method of gesture synchronization and dyssynchronization and gestural refusal of interaction that the player with the Avatar can resist in full embodiment. This paper therefore introduces a gesture-enhanced, extended version of Cybertherapy with Avatars that tackle multimodal bodily experience of voice-like hallucinations beyond mere visual or auditory stimulation. This is put forward theoretically in a 4E-cognition approach that expands Avatar Therapy with gestures into VR.https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2020-0004gesture-enhancementsavatar cybertherapyphilosophy of technologyembodied habit changepeircevoice-like hallucinations |
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Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA) |
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Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA) |
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Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA) |
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Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA) |
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Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA) |
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hacking into cybertherapy: considering a gesture-enhanced therapy with avatars (g+ta) |
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Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science |
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This paper will philosophically extend Julian Leff’s Avatar therapy paradigm (AT) for voice-like hallucinations that was initially proposed for treatment-resistant Schizophrenia patients into the realm of gesture-enhanced embodied cognition and Virtual Reality (VR), entitled g+TA (gesture-enhanced Avatar Therapy). I propose an philosophy of technology approach of embodied rhetorics of triadic kinetic “actions” in the sense of Charles Sanders Peirce that transforms the voice hallucination incorporated by an avatar- and that can confront acousmatic voice-like hallucinations with a method of gesture synchronization and dyssynchronization and gestural refusal of interaction that the player with the Avatar can resist in full embodiment. This paper therefore introduces a gesture-enhanced, extended version of Cybertherapy with Avatars that tackle multimodal bodily experience of voice-like hallucinations beyond mere visual or auditory stimulation. This is put forward theoretically in a 4E-cognition approach that expands Avatar Therapy with gestures into VR. |
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gesture-enhancements avatar cybertherapy philosophy of technology embodied habit change peirce voice-like hallucinations |
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https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2020-0004 |
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