Virtual, Real or Mixed: How Surrounding Objects Influence the Sense of Embodiment in Optical See-Through Experiences?

This paper studies the sense of embodiment of virtual avatars in Mixed Reality (MR) environments visualized with an Optical See-Through display. We investigated whether the content of the surrounding environment could impact the user’s perception of their avatar, when embodied from a first-person pe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in Virtual Reality Jg. 2; S. 1 - 15
Hauptverfasser: Genay, Adélaïde, Lécuyer, Anatole, Hachet, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Frontiers Media SA 04.06.2021
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Frontiers Media S.A
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[INFO.INFO-HC] Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]
[SCCO.COMP] Cognitive science/Computer science
[SCCO.PSYC] Cognitive science/Psychology
Augmented reality
Cognitive science
Computer Science
Electronic computers. Computer science
Human-Computer Interaction
mixed reality
Optical see-through
Psychology
QA75.5-76.95
sense of embodiment
User study
Optical see-through
Sense of embodiment
Mixed reality
Augmented reality
User study
ISSN:2673-4192, 2673-4192
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Zusammenfassung:This paper studies the sense of embodiment of virtual avatars in Mixed Reality (MR) environments visualized with an Optical See-Through display. We investigated whether the content of the surrounding environment could impact the user’s perception of their avatar, when embodied from a first-person perspective. To do so, we conducted a user study comparing the sense of embodiment toward virtual robot hands in three environment contexts which included progressive quantities of virtual content: real content only, mixed virtual/real content, and virtual content only. Taken together, our results suggest that users tend to accept virtual hands as their own more easily when the environment contains both virtual and real objects (mixed context), allowing them to better merge the two “worlds”. We discuss these results and raise research questions for future work to consider.
ISSN:2673-4192
2673-4192
DOI:10.3389/frvir.2021.679902