@inproceedings{6574,
  abstract     = {We introduce a bioresponsive virtual reality system that maps users' breathing patterns to dynamic, spatialized visual feedback. The system implements Gestalt principles, such as good figure, similarity, and symmetry, within a 3D particle-based environment to enhance the embodiment of interoceptive and exteroceptive space, aiming to blur the subjective boundary between bodily self and the external virtual space. Moreover, the system incorporates coupling kernels within a dynamic system composed of Kuramoto oscillators, enabling the emergence of geometric visual symmetries during breath retention phases. This architecture provides an experimental framework for investigating how visual–respiratory coupling of space can influence perceived bodily boundaries and peripersonal space, as well as for testing how such coupling affects positively valenced aspects of subjective experience, drawing on principles from the Symmetry Theory of Valence. A short video summary of the system is available at: https://osf.io/4enfg},
  author       = {Fejer, George and Holzapfel, Till and Gómez-Emilsson, Andrés and Hirvonen, Taru and Jermaks, Raimonds and Blum, Johannes and Lobser, David and Lalidis Mateo, Anestis-Pere and Glowacki, David and Gaebler, Michael and Lenggenhager, Bigna},
  booktitle    = {MCI-WS11: 18th Workshop “Be-greifbare Interaktion”},
  keywords     = {altered states of consciousness, bioresponsive systems, breath-based interaction, symmetry theory of valence, interoceptive-exteroceptive substitution, visual-respiratory coupling},
  location     = {Chemnitz},
  publisher    = {Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.},
  title        = {{Viscereality: A Bio-responsive VR System for Breath-Based Interactions and Coupled Oscillator Dynamics to Augment Altered States of Consciousness}},
  doi          = {10.18420/MUC2025-MCI-WS11-174},
  year         = {2025},
}

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  author       = {Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {0732-118X},
  journal      = {New Ideas in Psychology},
  keywords     = {Visual prediction, Motor learning, Eye–arm coordination, Mental imagery, Cognitive modeling, Robotics},
  number       = {3},
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  publisher    = {Elsevier},
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  year         = {2013},
}

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  author       = {Schenck, Wolfram and Hoffmann, Heiko and Möller, Ralf},
  issn         = {0732-118X},
  journal      = {New Ideas in Psychology},
  keywords     = {Perceptual motor processes, Robotics, Eye fixation, Visual perception, Grasping, Neural networks},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {235--259},
  publisher    = {Elsevier BV},
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  year         = {2011},
}

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  issn         = {1090-2155},
  journal      = {Brain and Language},
  keywords     = {Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Comprehension, Female, Humans, Language, Male, Speech Perception, Visual Perception, Young Adult},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {91--96},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
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  year         = {2011},
}

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  issn         = {1473-558X},
  journal      = {Neuroreport},
  keywords     = {Adolescent, Adult, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Electrophysiology, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Phonetics, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Speech, Speech Production Measurement, Verbal Learning, Visual Perception},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {1227--1230},
  publisher    = {Lippincott Williams & Wilkins},
  title        = {{Interference and facilitation in overt speech production investigated with event-related potentials}},
  doi          = {10.1097/WNR.0b013e328309ecd1},
  volume       = {19},
  year         = {2008},
}