Virtual Humans and Mental Health

Publications

Meneguzzo, P., Behrens, S. C., Favaro, A., Tenconi, E., Vindigni, V., Teufel, M., Skoda, E.M., Lindner, M., Quiros Ramirez, M.A., Mohler, B., Black, M., Zipfel, S., Giel, K., & Pavan, C. (2021). Body Image Disturbances and Weight Bias After Obesity Surgery: Semantic and Visual Evaluation in a Controlled Study, Findings from the BodyTalk Project. Obesity Surgery, 1-10.
Behrens, S. C., Meneguzzo, P., Favaro, A., Teufel, M., Skoda, E. M., Lindner, M., Walder, L., Quirós Ramírez M.A., Zipfel, S., Mohler, B., Black, M., & Giel, K. E. (2020). Weight bias and linguistic body representation in anorexia nervosa: Findings from the BodyTalk project. European Eating Disorders Review.

Description

Can we find a way to investigate body image implicitly? We have employed our "Body Talk" framework as a semantic evaluation tool for body image satisfaction and body perception to further investigate the cognitive and perceptual underpinnings of anorexia nervosa and obesity.

Eating disorders
Semantics
Body perception
Visual analytics