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Virtual Reality for Mind and Body: Does the Sense of Embodiment Towards a Virtual Body Affect Physical Body Awareness?

2022-05-03 @ 15:30 16:15 UTC -05:00

Mind-body therapies aim to improve health by combining physical and mental exercises. Recent developments tend to incorporate virtual reality (VR) into their design and execution, but there is a lack of research concerning the inclusion of virtual bodies and their effect on body awareness in these designs. In this study, 24 participants performed in-VR body awareness movement tasks in front of a virtual mirror while embodying a photorealistic, personalized avatar. Subsequently, they performed a heartbeat counting task and rated their perceived body awareness and sense of embodiment towards the avatar.
We found a significant relationship between sense of embodiment and self-reported body awareness but not between sense of embodiment and heartbeat counting.
Future work can build on these findings and further explore the relationship between avatar embodiment and body awareness.

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Date:
2022-05-03
Time:
15:30 – 16:15 UTC -05:00
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Website:
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2022/program/content/73215

Authors

Nina Döllinger (University of Würzburg, Human-Technology Systems), Erik Wolf (University of Würzburg, Human-Computer Interaction), David Mal (University of Würzburg, Human-Computer Interaction), Nico Erdmannsdörfer (University of Würzburg, Human-Technology Systems), Mario Botsch (TU Dortmund, Computer Graphics Group), Marc Erich Latoschik (University of Würzburg, Human-Computer Interaction), Carolin Wienrich (University of Würzburg, Human-Technology Systems)

Room: Exhibit Hall J