MindSpaces

Art-driven adaptive outdoors and indoors design

MindSpaces aims to create a novel approach to urban and architectural design by generating 3D-VR immersive and emotion-adaptive ‘neuro-environments’ that will help in designing emotionally-relevant urban spaces. The emotional aspects of an environment will be captured through the use of mobile EEG (Elecroencephalography) headsets, wearable bracelets/watches, and other physiological sensors that will be embedded with a VR-headset, so as to allow capturing the neuro-feedback of a VR-experience. The neuro-feedback will allow the virtual space to be adapted accordingly, resulting in an emotion-adaptive space. The ‘neuro-environments’ will be used at two levels of granularity. At the first level, artists and creatives will experience the ‘neuro-environments’ with the intention to improve the emotional-relevance of the urban space through the neuro-feedback of individuals, that have very-well developed the perception of aesthetics in what refers to symmetry and harmony but also to unconventional thinking leading to unexpected solutions. At the second level, the ‘neuro- environments’ will be experienced by the potential occupants of the urban space, so as to improve the emotional-relevance of this space through the neuro-feedback of individuals that have developed through experience the perception of space usability, comfort and functionality. This will allow MindSpaces to combine the transversal competencies and unconventional thinking of Artists, with the empirical and pragmatic perception of actual occupants, so as to drive the development of unconventional and unexpected solutions in the design of urban spaces.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. M.V. Kosti, M. Benayoun, N. Georgakopoulou, S.  Diplaris, T. Pistola, V. R. Xefteris, A. Tsanousa, K. Valsamidou, P. Koulali, Y. Shekhawat, P. Sciama,  I. Kalisperakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,  "Connecting the Elderly Using VR: A Novel Art-Driven Methodology". *Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2217*, March 2024 OPEN ACCESS
  2. Kosti, M.V.; Georgakopoulou, N.; Diplaris, S.; Pistola, T.; Chatzistavros, K.; Xefteris, V.-R.; Tsanousa, A.; Vrochidis, S.; Kompatsiaris, I. Assessing Virtual Reality Spaces for Elders Using Image-Based Sentiment Analysis and Stress Level Detection. Sensors 2023, 23, 4130. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23084130 OPEN ACCESS
  3. E. A. Stathopoulos, A. Vassiliades, S. Diplaris, S. Vrochidis, N. Bassiliades, and I. Kompatsiaris, "The MindSpaces Knowledge Graph: Applied Logic and Semantics on Indoor and Urban Adaptive Design". In ICAART 2023), 22-24 Feb 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 3, pp. 334-341. OPEN ACCESS
  4. Xefteris, V.-R.; Tsanousa, A.; Georgakopoulou, N.; Diplaris, S.; Vrochidis, S.; Kompatsiaris, I. Graph Theoretical Analysis of EEG Functional Connectivity Patterns and Fusion with Physiological Signals for Emotion Recognition. Sensors 2022, 22, 8198. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/s22218198 OPEN ACCESS
  5. K. Chatzistavros, T. Pistola, S. Diplaris, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis & I. Kompatsiaris, “Sentiment analysis on 2D images of urban and indoor spaces using deep learning architectures”, In 19th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2022), Graz, Austria, 14-16 September 2022, Pages 43–49. OPEN ACCESS
  6. E.A. Stathopoulos, A. Shvets, R. Carlini, S. Diplaris, S. Vrochidis, L. Wanner, and I. Kompatsiaris, “Social Media and Web Sensing on Interior and Urban Design”, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 30 June - 3 July 2022, Rhodes, Greece. DOI:10.1109/ISCC55528.2022.9912803 OPEN ACCESS © 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
  7. T. Pistola, N. Georgakopoulou, A. Shvets, K. Chatzistavros, V.-R. Xefteris, A. Táboas García, I. Koulalis, S. Diplaris, L. Wanner, S. & I. Kompatsiaris, "Imageability-based Multi-modal Analysis of Urban Environments for Architects and Artists", In the Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER 2022), Lecce, Italy, 23-24 May, 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  8. S. Heller, V. Gsteiger, W. Bailer, C. Gurrin, B. Þ. Jónsson, Jakub Loko, Andreas Leibetseder, F. Mejzlík, L. Peška, L. Rossetto, K. Schall, K. Schoeffmann, H. Schuldt, F. Spiess, L.-D. Tran, L. Vadicamo, P. Veselý, S. Vrochidis, and J. Wu, "Interactive Video Retrieval Evaluation at a Distance - Comparing Sixteen Interactive Video Search Systems in a Remote Setting at the 10th Video Browser Showdown", International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 11, pages 1–18, 2022.
  9. M. Rousi, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,“Supporting the Discovery and Reuse of Digital Content in Creative Industries using Linked Data”, 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2021), 27-29 January, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSC50631.2021.00025
  10. E. Batziou, P. Alvanitopoulos, K. Ioannidis, I. Patras, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, ''Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks and Fast Adaptive Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition for Style Transfer'', in 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020), 10 & 15 January 2021, Milan, Italy.
  11. S. Mille, S. Symeonidis, M. Rousi, M. Marimon Felipe, K. Stavrothanasopoulos, P. Alvanitopoulos, R. Carlini Salguero, J. Grivolla, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis and L. Wanner, "A Case Study of NLG from Multimedia Data Sources: Generating Architectural Landmark Descriptions", in WebNLG+: 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web, (INLG 2020), 15-18 December 2020. OPEN ACCESS
  12. G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "V4Ann: Representation and Interlinking of Atom-based Annotations", In: Acosta M., Cudre-Mauroux P., Maleshkova M., Pellegrini T., Sack H., Sure-Vetter Y. (eds) Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11702, pp 124-139, 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33220-4_10
  13. P. Alvanitopoulos, S. Diplaris, B. de Gelder, A. Shvets, M. Benayoun, P, Koulali, A. Moghnieh, Y. Shekhawat, C. Stentoumis, T. Hosmer, R. Anadol, M. Borreguero, A. Martin, P. Sciama, K. Avgerinakis, P. Petrantonakis, A. Briassouli, S. Mille, A. Tellios, L. Fraguada, H. Sprengel, I. Kalisperakis, N. Cabanas, S. Nikolopoulos, S. Skouras, V. Vogler, D. Zavraka, J. Piesk, L. Grammatikopoulos, L. Wanner, T. Klein, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "MindSpaces: Art-driven adaptive outdoors and indoors design", in Ninth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage — DiPP2019, Burgas, Bulgaria, 26–28 September, 2019, pp 391-400. OPEN ACCESS