Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities

个性化 3D 头像工具开发，用于测量跨性别身份的身体感知

• 批准号: 10372079
• 负责人: Jamie Feusner
• 金额: $ 12.02万
• 依托单位: CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10372079
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Address; Adult; Area; Awareness; Birth; Body Image; Body measure procedure; Body part; Breast; Characteristics; Clinical; Clinical Research; Computer software; Conscious; Data; Development; Devices; Discriminant Analysis; Distress; Future; Gender; Gender Identity; Goals; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Grouping; Hormonal; Hormones; Human body; Individual; Intervention; Least-Squares Analysis; Link; Measurement; Measures; Medical; Monitor; Neurobiology; Operative Surgical Procedures; Outcome; Patient Self-Report; Physical shape; Problem Solving; Questionnaires; Reporting; Research; Scanning; Sex Characteristics; Shapes; Specific qualifier value; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Three-Dimensional Image; Time; Validation; Visual; Waist-Hip Ratio; base; body dissatisfaction; cisgender; clinical application; cost efficient; digital; dysphoria; experience; flexibility; follow-up; gender dysphoria; gender fluid; high risk; image reconstruction; improved; innovation; neurodevelopment; novel; prognostic significance; sex; suicidal risk; three-dimensional modeling; three-dimensional visualization; tool; tool development; transgender; unsupervised learning

Abstract Public awareness of the diversity of experiences of gender identities has climbed sharply. The specific issues of those with gender dysphoria (GD) related to self-identity, body image, and medical interventions are challenges for the 21st century, particularly given the high risk of suicide. Gender identity is tightly linked to one’s bodily features, particularly readily observable sexual characteristics. For transgender and nonbinary individuals with GD, the incongruence between their body associated with their birth-assigned sex – what they see in the mirror before any treatment – and the internalized representation of their gender-identified body is a key defining part of their experience and contributes to their dysphoria. Currently, no clinical or research tool exists to capture and quantify the diverse experiences of one’s current body and one’s gender-identified body (which may be distinct from their current body), across a range of gender identities. Measuring the internalized representation of one’s body could be facilitated by technology to visually represent this on a three-dimensional avatar. The technology needed to scan and analyze the human figure is now available and cost efficient. It is now possible to scan individuals to create personalized 3D visualizations, or “avatars,” with which they can interact on mobile and desktop devices to represent internal representation of their bodies. This can allow individuals to see and manipulate their own 3D avatar with a high degree of flexibility. The goal of this project is to create a novel, visually based digital tool to measure, understand, and quantify individuals’ experiences of their bodies. We will develop, validate, and test in transgender, nonbinary, and cisgender adults a personalized avatar tool to represent internalized gender-identified bodies in order to quantify incongruence between this and one’s current body. This tool – “GD Somatomap” – will be an advancement over existing self-report questionnaires to capture visual representations of internalized body image, cross-sectionally and dynamically over time. It will be flexible enough to characterize the heterogenous experiences of a range of gender identities including binary transgender, gender fluid, nonbinary, and cisgender. It can be used in clinical and clinical research applications to track outcomes of cross-hormone and gender-affirming surgical treatments. It can potentially improve clinical outcomes by identifying specific sets of body parts as targets for treatments to improve body congruence. Further, it will provide a unique means to measure own-body perceptual accuracy; understanding differences in perceptual accuracy and what potentially modifiable factors contribute to this may have prognostic significance for treatments to address body incongruence. It could also be used in future studies to investigate functional and structural neurobiological correlates of body perception and internal body representation, and at what point in neurodevelopment these emerge for those with different gender identities.

摘要 公众对性别认同经历的多样性的认识急剧上升。的具体问题 与自我认同、身体形象和医疗干预有关的性别焦虑（GD）患者中， 这是21世纪世纪的挑战，特别是考虑到自杀的高风险。性别认同与 一个人的身体特征，尤其是容易观察到的性特征。对于跨性别和非二元 GD患者，他们的身体与他们出生时指定的性别之间的不一致-他们 在任何治疗之前都要照照镜子--他们性别认同的身体的内在表现是一种 他们的经验的关键决定性部分，并有助于他们的烦躁不安。目前，没有临床或研究工具， 它的存在是为了捕捉和量化一个人当前身体和一个人性别认同的身体的不同体验 （这可能不同于他们目前的身体），在一系列的性别身份。衡量内化的 一个人的身体的表示可以通过技术来促进，以在三维空间上视觉地表示这个身体。 阿凡达扫描和分析人体所需的技术现在已经可用，并且具有成本效益。是 现在可以扫描个人，以创建个性化的3D可视化，或“化身”，他们可以 在移动的和桌面设备上交互以表示他们身体的内部表示。这可以允许 个人看到和操纵自己的3D化身具有高度的灵活性。这个项目的目标是 创建一个新颖的，基于视觉的数字工具来测量，理解和量化个人的经验， 身上我们将开发，验证，并在跨性别，非二元和顺性别成人测试个性化的 化身工具，以代表内化的性别识别机构，以量化之间的不一致， 一个人现在的身体。这个工具-“GD Somatomap”-将是对现有自我报告的一个进步 问卷调查，以捕获内在身体形象的视觉表征，横截面和动态 随着时间它将具有足够的灵活性来描述一系列性别的异质经历 身份，包括二元跨性别，性别流体，非二元，顺性别。可用于临床， 临床研究应用，以跟踪交叉激素和性别确认手术治疗的结果。它 可以通过识别特定的身体部位作为治疗目标来潜在地改善临床结果， 改善身体一致性。此外，它将提供一种独特的手段来衡量自己的身体知觉的准确性; 了解感知准确性的差异以及可能导致这种差异的潜在可修改因素， 对解决身体不协调的治疗具有预后意义。它也可以在未来使用 研究身体知觉和内部身体的功能和结构神经生物学相关性 代表性，以及在神经发育的什么时候，这些出现在那些具有不同性别身份的人身上。