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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Main Author: Gerner Alexander Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-12-01
Series:Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2020-0004
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spelling 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)
Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science
gesture-enhancements
avatar cybertherapy
philosophy of technology
embodied habit change
peirce
voice-like hallucinations
author_facet Gerner Alexander Matthias
author_sort Gerner Alexander Matthias
title Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)
title_short Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)
title_full Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)
title_fullStr Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)
title_full_unstemmed Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)
title_sort hacking into cybertherapy: considering a gesture-enhanced therapy with avatars (g+ta)
publisher Sciendo
series Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science
issn 1647-659X
publishDate 2020-12-01
description 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.
topic gesture-enhancements
avatar cybertherapy
philosophy of technology
embodied habit change
peirce
voice-like hallucinations
url https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2020-0004
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