[Info-area2] Seminario su "human synchronization and mental health" di Pr. Benoît G. Bardy a DIISM 26 Aprile

[PRATTICHIZZO DOMENICO]

Cari Colleghi e Amici. vi invito a partecipare al seminario di Benoît G. 
Bardy su Human body synchronisation e mental health. Il seminario si 
terrà presso l'Aula 20 del Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e 
Scienze Matematiche il giorno 26 Aprile alle ore 16.00.

Un caro saluto
_DP


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Title
What your moves say about you: Action-perception dynamics, human 
synchronization and mental health

Speaker
Pr. Benoît G. Bardy
EuroMov, Univ. Montpellier, France & Institut Universitaire de France

Abstract
In this presentation, we will emphasize the informational nature of 
human synchronization, together with its consequences for the 
understanding of how the way we move reveals who we are. The notion of 
Individual Motor Signature (IMS) will be presented, reducing to one 
low-dimensional variable the interaction of multiple degrees of freedom 
at various levels of the human body (Slowinski et al., 2016). A novel 
way to evaluate how these signatures are influenced, when interacting in 
a dyad or in a group (Alderisio et al., 2017), by physical and movement 
similarity, social competences and mental deficits, will be introduced. 
We will present a recently developed digital architecture that modulates 
IMS in real-time during social interaction with artificial agents 
(avatars and robots), and we will show how this architecture can be used 
for the rehabilitation of patients suffering from mental and social 
disorders (Slowinski et al., 2017), as well as for the understanding of 
how group synchronization emerges in natural situations.

References
Alderisio, F., G. Fiore, Salesse, R., Bardy, B. G., & di Bernardo, M. 
(2017). Interaction patterns and individual dynamics shape the way we 
move in synchrony. Scientific Reports, 6846.

Słowiński, P., Zhai, C., Alderisio, F., Salesse, R., Gueugnon, M., 
Marin, L., Bardy, B. G., di Bernardo, M., & Tsaneva-Atanasova, K. 
(2016). Dynamic similarity promotes interpersonal coordination in 
joint-action. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13: 20151093.

Słowiński, P., Zhai, C., Alderisio, F., Shen, Y., Tino, P., Bortolon, 
C., Burca, M., Raffard, S., Capdevielle, D., Cohen, L., Khoramshahi, M., 
Billard, A., Salesse, R., Gueugnon, M., Marin, L., Bardy, B. G., di 
Bernardo, M., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K. (2017). Kinematic biomarkers of 
schizophrenia. Npj Schizophrenia, 3:8

Acknowledgements. This work was funded by the European Project AlterEgo 
FP7 ICT 2.9 - Cognitive Sciences and Robotics, Grant Number 600610 
(www.euromov.eu/alterego).