Avatar Embodiment Enhances Haptic Confidence on the Out-of-Body Touch Illusion
IEEE Transactions on Haptics July 1, 2019 Mar González-Franco, Christopher C. Berger
In the real world, our bodies influence how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. Our body can also affect estimations of object sizes and distances. But how does our body affect our haptic experience? Here, we examined the modulation of a visuo-haptic illusion of touch on a virtual stick in virtual reality, when participants were embodied in an avatar and when they were not. During...