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Vicarious: A Flexible Framework for the Creative Use of Sensed Biodata

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Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems

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In this paper we discuss vicarious, a flexible, extensible, distributed framework for capturing, processing, visualising, recording and generally handling sensed biodata. We outline six specific creative needs: heterogeneity of sensor inputs, liveness, high quality video, synchronisation, scalability, usability. Next, by outlining the architecture and features of vicarious, we show how the system meets each of those expectations. We then provide four examples of creative experiences developed using vicarious. The paper thus contributes the tool vicarious as support for creative experience design, as well as concrete examples of creative, artistic or performative applications of the system.

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    https://secure-nikeplus.nike.com/plus/.

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    http://www.humankarigar.com/biotrace.htm.

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    The videos can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2C59049F28D8B580.

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This paper was published in an earlier form as [11]. This work is supported by Horizon Digital Economy Research, RCUK grant EP/G065802/1.

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  1. Mixed Reality Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK

    Paul Tennent, Joe Marshall, Brendan Walker, Paul Harter, Steve Benford & Tony Glover

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  1. and Technology, JAIST - Japan Advanced Institute for Sci, Kanazawa, Japan

    Susumu Kunifuji

  2. Dept of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George Angelos Papadopoulos

  3. Dept. of Automatic Control & Biom. Eng., AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

    Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski

  4. Systems Res Inst, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk  

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Tennent, P., Marshall, J., Walker, B., Harter, P., Benford, S., Glover, T. (2016). Vicarious: A Flexible Framework for the Creative Use of Sensed Biodata. In: Kunifuji, S., Papadopoulos, G., Skulimowski, A., Kacprzyk  , J. (eds) Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27478-2_16

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