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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.
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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.

Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)

Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science

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Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (A)

This paper will philosophically extend Julian Leff’s Avatar therapy paradigm (AT) for voice-like hallucinations that was initially proposed for...

Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (^g+TA)

Published Online: May 28, 2021

Page range: 32 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2020-0004

Keywords
Gesture-enhancements, Avatar Cybertherapy, Philosophy of Technology, embodied habit change, Peirce, Voice-like Hallucinations

© 2020 Alexander Matthias Gerner, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)

Published Online: May 28, 2021

Page range: 32 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2020-0004

KeywordsGesture-enhancements, Avatar Cybertherapy, Philosophy of Technology, embodied habit change, Peirce, Voice-like Hallucinations

© 2020 Alexander Matthias Gerner, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (^g+TA)

Keywords
Gesture-enhancements, Avatar Cybertherapy, Philosophy of Technology, embodied habit change, Peirce, Voice-like Hallucinations