GI-25/5 AXIS-Cog: Action, eXperience & Interaction Systems in Cognitive Science

Heras-Escribano, M., López-Silva, P., & Lobo, L. (2025). Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal. Theory & Psychology, 35(4), 508-528. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543251355149
de Paz, C., Huertas, J. A., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Martín-Gonzalo, J. A., Varas, A. B., & Travieso, D. (2025). Enhancing navigation and obstacle avoidance with a vibrotactile device as secondary electronic travel aid. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 20(4), 1140-1150. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2024.2417264
Mehta, A., Smith, J., Travieso, D., & Bongers, R. M. (2025). Random and Blocked Practice Schedule Affect Search for New Movement Coordination Patterns Differently. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 1(aop), 1-20.
Mehta, A., Smith, J., Travieso, D., & Bongers, R. M. (2025). Extrinsic Variability but not Intrinsic Variability Affects the Search for Synergies in De-novo Motor Learning.
Cruz, G. N., & Heras-Escribano, M. (2025). Being-in-the-World Beyond Dreyfus: Bringing Hermeneutics to Embodied Cognition. Philosophia, 1-29.
Lobo, L. (2024). The Post-Cognitivist Turn in Sensory Substitution. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70847-3_11
de Paz, C., Carver, N. S., Fasone, S. G., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Jacobs, D. M., & Silva, P. L. (2024). The Haptic Moving Room. Ecological Psychology, 36(3), 168-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2024.2319351
Heras-Escribano, D. M., Travieso, D., & Lobo, L. (2024). An affordance-based approach to the origins of concepts. In The modern legacy of Gibson's affordances for the sciences of organisms. Taylor & Francis. https://www.doi.org/10.4324/9781003396536-7
Heras-Escribano, M., & Martínez Moreno, D. (2024). The emergence of ur-intentionality: An ecological proposal. Philosophies, 9(3), 54.
Segundo-Ortin, M., & Heras-Escribano, M. (2024). The risk of trivializing affordances: mental and cognitive affordances examined. Philosophical Psychology, 37(7), 1639-1655.
Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Travieso, D., Navia, J. A., Montes, A., Jacobs, D. M., & Frutos, P. L. (2023). Experimental validation of COMETA model of mental workload in air traffic control. Journal of Air Transport Management, 108, 102378.
de Paz, C., & Travieso, D. (2023). A direct comparison of sound and vibration as sources of stimulation for a sensory substitution glove. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00495-w
De Paz, C., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Travieso, D., & Jacobs, D. M. (2023). Grasping objects with a sensory substitution glove. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 170, 102963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102963
Sangati, E., Lobo, L., Estelle, S., Sangati, F., Tavassoli, S., & Froese, T. (2023). Uncovering the Role of Intention in Active and Passive Perception. En Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, pp. 663-670).
Lobo Navas, L. (2022). Affordances y sustitución sensorial. En Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: introducción, teoría y aplicaciones (pp. 201-221). Tecnos.
Heras-Escribano, M., Lobo Navas, L., y Encabo, J. V. (2022). El concepto de affordance y sus interpretaciones. En Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: introducción, teoría y aplicaciones (pp. 11-28). Tecnos.
Heras-Escribano, M. y Lobo Navas, L. (2022). Los orígenes teóricos de las affordances y la psicología ecológica: una introducción histórica. En Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: introducción, teoría y aplicaciones (pp. 61-81). Tecnos.
Pagnotta, M., Jacobs, D. M., de Frutos, P. L., Rodríguez, R., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., & Travieso, D. (2022). Task difficulty and physiological measures of mental workload in air traffic control: a scoping review. Ergonomics, 65(8), 1095-1118.
Favela, L. H., Amon, M. J., Lobo, L., & Chemero, A. (2021). Empirical evidence for extended cognitive systems. Cognitive Science, 45(11), e13060.
Heras-Escribano, M & Lobo, L. (2020). Introduction to the special issue “Cognition and Technology: A 4E Perspective”. Límite. Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy & Psychology, 15(25), 1-5.
Travieso, D., Lobo, L., de Paz, C., Langelaar, T.E., Ibáñez-Gijón, J. & Jacobs, D.M. (2020). Dynamic Touch as Common Ground for Enactivism and Ecological Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1257. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01257.
de Paz, C., Travieso, D., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Bravo, M., Lobo, L., & Jacobs, D. M. (2019). Sensory substitution: The affordance of passability, body-scaled perception, and exploratory movements. PloS one, 14(3), e0213342.
Lobo, L. (2019). Current alternatives on perceptual learning: introduction to special issue on post-cognitivist approaches to perceptual learning. Adaptive Behavior, 27(6), 355-362.
Lobo, L.; Nordbeck, P.C.; Raja, V.; Chemero, A.; Riley, M.A.; Jacobs, D.M., & Travieso, D. (2019). Route Selection and Obstacle Avoidance with a Short-Range Haptic Sensory Substitution Device. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 132, 25-33.

GI-25/5 AXIS-Cog: Action, eXperience & Interaction Systems in Cognitive Science

Group Coordinator:

Lorena Lobo Navas

Members of the Research Group:

Dr. Juan Carlos de Paz Ríos
Dr. David Travieso García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Dr. Manuel Heras Escribano (universidad de Granada)

Keywords:

Embodied cognition, Sensory substitution, Accessibility, Human experience, Inclusion technologies

Short description of the Group and objectives:

This research group explores how bodily and perceptual experience can inspire the design of digital health interventions, and how sensory substitution technologies, grounded in embodied cognition, can foster accessibility, learning, and rehabilitation. The group works from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating psychology, philosophy, design, human-computer interaction, and assistive technologies to address the challenges of inclusion, health, and adaptive learning.

Objectives:

Advance knowledge on embodied cognition, perception, and philosophy of the body in relation to health, accessibility, and learning processes.
Design and evaluate digital health interventions that build on bodily and perceptual experience, guided by theoretical and philosophical frameworks that shape their human and social impact.
Develop and test sensory substitution technologies that enable new forms of learning, interaction, and participation for people with sensory disabilities

Investigation lines:

Experiencia corporal y perceptiva para el diseño de intervenciones digitales / Bodily and perceptual experience for the design of digital interventions.

Posts:

Heras-Escribano, M., López-Silva, P., & Lobo, L. (2025). Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal. Theory & Psychology, 35(4), 508-528. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543251355149
de Paz, C., Huertas, J. A., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Martín-Gonzalo, J. A., Varas, A. B., & Travieso, D. (2025). Enhancing navigation and obstacle avoidance with a vibrotactile device as secondary electronic travel aid. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 20(4), 1140-1150. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2024.2417264
Mehta, A., Smith, J., Travieso, D., & Bongers, R. M. (2025). Random and Blocked Practice Schedule Affect Search for New Movement Coordination Patterns Differently. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 1(aop), 1-20.
Mehta, A., Smith, J., Travieso, D., & Bongers, R. M. (2025). Extrinsic Variability but not Intrinsic Variability Affects the Search for Synergies in De-novo Motor Learning.
Cruz, G. N., & Heras-Escribano, M. (2025). Being-in-the-World Beyond Dreyfus: Bringing Hermeneutics to Embodied Cognition. Philosophia, 1-29.
Lobo, L. (2024). The Post-Cognitivist Turn in Sensory Substitution. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70847-3_11
de Paz, C., Carver, N. S., Fasone, S. G., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Jacobs, D. M., & Silva, P. L. (2024). The Haptic Moving Room. Ecological Psychology, 36(3), 168-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2024.2319351
Heras-Escribano, D. M., Travieso, D., & Lobo, L. (2024). An affordance-based approach to the origins of concepts. In The modern legacy of Gibson's affordances for the sciences of organisms. Taylor & Francis. https://www.doi.org/10.4324/9781003396536-7
Heras-Escribano, M., & Martínez Moreno, D. (2024). The emergence of ur-intentionality: An ecological proposal. Philosophies, 9(3), 54.
Segundo-Ortin, M., & Heras-Escribano, M. (2024). The risk of trivializing affordances: mental and cognitive affordances examined. Philosophical Psychology, 37(7), 1639-1655.
Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Travieso, D., Navia, J. A., Montes, A., Jacobs, D. M., & Frutos, P. L. (2023). Experimental validation of COMETA model of mental workload in air traffic control. Journal of Air Transport Management, 108, 102378.
de Paz, C., & Travieso, D. (2023). A direct comparison of sound and vibration as sources of stimulation for a sensory substitution glove. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00495-w
De Paz, C., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Travieso, D., & Jacobs, D. M. (2023). Grasping objects with a sensory substitution glove. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 170, 102963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102963
Sangati, E., Lobo, L., Estelle, S., Sangati, F., Tavassoli, S., & Froese, T. (2023). Uncovering the Role of Intention in Active and Passive Perception. En Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, pp. 663-670).
Lobo Navas, L. (2022). Affordances y sustitución sensorial. En Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: introducción, teoría y aplicaciones (pp. 201-221). Tecnos.
Heras-Escribano, M., Lobo Navas, L., y Encabo, J. V. (2022). El concepto de affordance y sus interpretaciones. En Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: introducción, teoría y aplicaciones (pp. 11-28). Tecnos.
Heras-Escribano, M. y Lobo Navas, L. (2022). Los orígenes teóricos de las affordances y la psicología ecológica: una introducción histórica. En Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: introducción, teoría y aplicaciones (pp. 61-81). Tecnos.
Pagnotta, M., Jacobs, D. M., de Frutos, P. L., Rodríguez, R., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., & Travieso, D. (2022). Task difficulty and physiological measures of mental workload in air traffic control: a scoping review. Ergonomics, 65(8), 1095-1118.
Favela, L. H., Amon, M. J., Lobo, L., & Chemero, A. (2021). Empirical evidence for extended cognitive systems. Cognitive Science, 45(11), e13060.
Heras-Escribano, M & Lobo, L. (2020). Introduction to the special issue “Cognition and Technology: A 4E Perspective”. Límite. Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy & Psychology, 15(25), 1-5.
Travieso, D., Lobo, L., de Paz, C., Langelaar, T.E., Ibáñez-Gijón, J. & Jacobs, D.M. (2020). Dynamic Touch as Common Ground for Enactivism and Ecological Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1257. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01257.
de Paz, C., Travieso, D., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., Bravo, M., Lobo, L., & Jacobs, D. M. (2019). Sensory substitution: The affordance of passability, body-scaled perception, and exploratory movements. PloS one, 14(3), e0213342.
Lobo, L. (2019). Current alternatives on perceptual learning: introduction to special issue on post-cognitivist approaches to perceptual learning. Adaptive Behavior, 27(6), 355-362.
Lobo, L.; Nordbeck, P.C.; Raja, V.; Chemero, A.; Riley, M.A.; Jacobs, D.M., & Travieso, D. (2019). Route Selection and Obstacle Avoidance with a Short-Range Haptic Sensory Substitution Device. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 132, 25-33.

Research projects

PsicEquality-Proyecto de Innovación Docente para la Promoción de la Igualdad de Género en Trabajos de Fin de Titulación en Psicología y Psicopedagogía (ID-UDIMA-2023-04).
REPAIRS: RE-learning Perception-Action In Rehabilitation from a Systems perspective. European Training Network (ETN)- H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network programme- European Union (2021-2025) Dotación total: 3.917.315,52€
Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, Grant RYC2022-036688-I
funded by MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by ESF+ Agencia Financiadora: Agencia Estatal de Investigación y Fondo Social Europeo Plus (ESF+) (2024-2029). Dotación total: 50.000€
Grant CNS2022-136195 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union Next Generation EU/PRTR (“Toward an Ecological Approach to the Natural Origins of Content: From Direct Perception to Social Norms (ECOCONTENT)”). Agencia Estatal de Investigación y European Union Next Generation EU/PRTR, 2023-2025, Dotación total: 99.632,40€
De la experiencia a los conceptos: Una reformulación del problema de Molyneux a través de la sustitución sensorial ecológica (ECOCONCEPT). Ayudas a proyectos de investigación científica 2021 – Fundación BBVA 2022-2024. Dotación total: 26.000€.

Contracts of I + D

Agreement between UAM, ENAIRE, and CRIDA for the development of R&D&I activities of common interest in the field of human factors applied to air traffic management.