A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of body ownership illusions in virtual reality

A Mottelson, A Muresan, K Hornbæk… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Body ownership illusions (BOIs) occur when participants experience that their actual body is
replaced by a body shown in virtual reality (VR). Based on a systematic review of the …

Virtual body ownership illusions for mental health: a narrative review

M Matamala-Gomez, A Maselli, C Malighetti… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last 20 years, virtual reality (VR) has been widely used to promote mental health in
populations presenting different clinical conditions. Mental health does not refer only to the …

Flexing muscles in virtual reality: effects of avatars' muscular appearance on physical performance

M Kocur, M Kloss, V Schwind, C Wolff… - Proceedings of the Annual …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Virtual reality (VR) allows users to embody any possible avatar. Previous work found that the
appearance of avatars can change our perception and behavior. Such behavioral changes …

Virtual reality in neurorehabilitation: a review of its effects on multiple cognitive domains

G Riva, V Mancuso, S Cavedoni… - Expert Review of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Neurological diseases frequently cause adult-onset disability and have
increased the demand for rehabilitative interventions. Neurorehabilitation has been …

The self-avatar follower effect in virtual reality

M Gonzalez-Franco, B Cohn, E Ofek… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When embodying a virtual avatar in immersive VR applications where body tracking is
enabled, users typically are and feel in control the avatar movements. However, there are …

Visual appearance of the virtual hand affects embodiment in the virtual hand illusion

M Pyasik, G Tieri, L Pia - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Body ownership (the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself) is commonly studied with
Rubber hand illusion (RHI) paradigm that allows inducing a temporary illusory feeling of …

Multisensory integration dominates hypnotisability and expectations in the rubber hand illusion

M Slater, HH Ehrsson - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Some recent papers by P. Lush and colleagues have argued that the rubber hand illusion
(RHI), where participants can feel a rubber hand as their own under appropriate …

Full body illusion and cognition: A systematic review of the literature

M Pyasik, T Ciorli, L Pia - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, an increasing number of studies employed the full body illusion paradigm
(ie, the experimentally induced illusory ownership over a fake/virtual body) to investigate the …

The benefits of passive haptics and perceptual manipulation for extended reality interactions in constrained passenger spaces

D Medeiros, G Wilson, M Mcgill… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extended Reality (XR) technology brings exciting possibilities for aeroplane passengers,
allowing them to escape their limited cabin space. Using nearby physical surfaces enables a …

Studying the role of haptic feedback on virtual embodiment in a drawing task

G Richard, T Pietrzak, F Argelaguet… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The role of haptic feedback on virtual embodiment is investigated in this paper in a context of
active and fine manipulation. In particular, we explore which haptic cue, with varying …