Convertible Chair-Couch for Roentgen Examinations

Chair and Couch Discourse: A Study of Visual Copresence in Psychoanalysis

In traditional psychoanalysis, patients recline on a couch in a way that prevents patients and analysts from seeing each other’s faces. This has been argued to have significant effects, both positive and negative, on patients’ treatment. The use of the couch creates an unusual communicative situation in which both parties are physically but not visually copresent. This study examines the conten...

Adventurous Tourism for Couch Potatoes

Two tourist guides are described. One supports a virtual tour through an archaeological site, the other a tour through a real exhibition. The first system is based on the 3D reconstruction of the ancient city of Sagalassos. A virtual guide, represented by an animated mask can be given commands using natural speech. Through its expressions the mask makes clear whether the questions have been und...

Roentgen Technique

Roentgen Technic

Neurons on the couch.

A hundred years after psychoanalysis was introduced, neuroscience has taken a giant step forward. It seems nowadays that effects of psychotherapy could be monitored and measured by state-of-the art brain imaging techniques. Today, the psychotherapy is considered as a strategic and purposeful environmental influence intended to enhance learning. Since gene expression is regulated by environmenta...