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## The UJI participates in a European project to create an avatar that enriches social interaction in shared hybrid spaces

23/07/2024 |
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  Detail of avatar of one of the users taking part in the survey of usability of the system SHARESPACE for rehabilitation at chronic ache.
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  Fisioterapeuta guiding to a patient in the virtual world during the studio of usability.

Extended Reality (XR) is an emerging technology with promising potential in many areas, but several limitations remain to be overcome in order to enrich people's interactive experiences. The challenge is to steer this transformation of reality to create new opportunities for human-centred, safe, rewarding and inclusive social interaction in this hybrid future.

The aim of the SHARESPACE project, in which the Laboratory of Psychology and Technology of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló (LabPsiTec) is participating, coordinated by Professor Azucena García Palacios, is to create a novel prototype of an avatar or socially interactive agent based on human sensorimotor communication, which will capture natural body movements, facial expressions and hand gestures and allow intuitive and intelligent interactions between humans and avatars.

The project's 13-institution research team will translate natural social interactions into the digital world by offering three interrelated scientific and technological breakthroughs: new cognitive computing architectures, a unique network of self-calibrating body sensors, and fully mobile spatial augmented reality and virtual human representation.

The new technology will be tested interactively in two trials with human and artificial agents in hybrid social spaces and in three real cases in the fields of health, sport and art. The Universitat Jaume I will be responsible for identifying and evaluating the influence of psychological and social variables on the extended reality of shared hybrid spaces. The aim is to achieve a functional prototype adapted to the personalised characteristics of the agents (gender, culture and social dispositions).

The consortium has already carried out the first usability studies of the prototypes. In the one carried out at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital, the system was tested in the field of physical rehabilitation for chronic pain with specialists in the field from the fields of medicine, physiotherapy and nursing. Initial data shows that the system is easy to use and useful for improving access to rehabilitation practice.

The idea is that physiotherapists from the hospital and patients at home can remotely enter a virtual world where their avatars will be. They will be able to perform rehabilitation exercises at home, following the steps of the healthcare professional's avatar in the virtual world, and watch other patients perform the exercises. The system will allow real-time feedback between patients and professionals to correct the exercises.

The consortium consists of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, which is coordinating the project, the University of Montpellier, the CRdC Nuove Tecnologie per le Attività Produttive Scarl, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, the Universitat Jaume I, Golaem S.A., Lightspace Technologies SIA, the University of Montford, the Cyens Centre of Excellence, Ricoh Europe, the Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique, Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG and the Hospital Vall d'Hebron (VHIR).

This project is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme, in the digital, industrial and special category, with agreement number 101092889. Website: [sharespace.eu](http://sharespace.eu).

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\*Project funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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