Touch and Go: On the use of proprioception to convey a meaningful experience in virtual reality

Proprioception is the usually unconscious ability to monitor the position of our body in the world. Two aspects of proprioception may be of particular interest in the construction of virtual reality environments. The first, proprioceptive memory, occurs when a recalled position of our body overrides the actual position of our body or limb. The second, proprioceptive drift, occurs when the sense of ownership of part of our body is transferred externally. The abstract navigable virtual reality environment The Sonic Stage employs these two aspects of proprioception to enhance the place illusion and plausibility of the environment.

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Ron Yakir

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

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[0001]Academy of Visual Arts

Hong Kong Baptist University

Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.61

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] V. C Anderson-BarnesC McAuliffeK. M Swanberg 2009 Phantom limb pain – A phenomenon of proprioceptive memory? Med Hypotheses 73 555 8

[2] BeAnotherLab 2019 http://beanotherlab.org/home/the-lab/ Dec 12 2019

[3] I BergstromS AzevedoP Papiotis 2017 The Plausibility of a String Quartet Performance in Virtual Reality IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph 23 1332 9

[4] L Carroll 1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Macmillan & Co London

[5] C Collet 2013 Autonomic nervous system correlates in movement observation and motor imagery Frontiers in human neuroscience 7 415 30 July 2013 doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00415

[6] J Dewey 1934 Art as Experience Wideview / Perigee New York

[7] H. H EhrssonK WiechN Weiskopf 2007 Threatening a rubber hand that you feel is yours elicits a cortical anxiety response Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104 9828 33

[8] X FuchsM RiemerM DiersH FlorJ Trojan 2016 Perceptual drifts of real and artificial limbs in the rubber hand illusion Scientific reports 6 24362 doi:10.1038/srep24362

[9] HKACT! 2019 Act 7 Vessel/Resonance/Bread https://www.hkact.hk/act7?fbclid=IwAR1bxQMjHErbvKJBviPy-fWMXidkqcIHMztm1ZPCM6fZplqr1eqSjSsNHY Feb 29 2020

[10] W Jänig 1989 Autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Functional Pain Syndromes: Presentation and Pathophysiology R. F SchmidtG Thews Human Physiology Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

[11] L Jarvis 2017 The Ethics of Mislocalized Selfhood: Proprioceptive drifting towards the virtual other Performance Research: On Proximity 22 3 30 37

[12] J Jerald 2015 The VR Book – Human-Centred Design for Virtual Reality ACM Books

[13] O. X KuiperJ. E BosE. A Schmidt 2019 Knowing What’s Coming: Unpredictable Motion Causes More Motion Sickness Hum Factors [Cross Ref]

[14] S LiljeströmP. N JuslinD Västfjäll 2013 Experimental evidence of the roles of music choice, social context, and listener personality in emotional reactions to music Psychology of Music 41 5 579 599

[15] L NummenmaaJ HirvonenR Parkkola 2008 Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy Neuroimage 43 571 80

[16] E. C De Oliveira 2016 Virtual Body Swap: A New Feasible Tool to Be Explored in Health and Education 2016 XVIII Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR) 81 89

[17] V. I PetkovaH. H EhrssonJ Harris 2008 If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping (Body Swap Illusion) PLoS ONE 3 12 e3832

[18] U ProskeS. C Gandevia 2012 The Proprioceptive Senses: Their Roles in Signaling Body Shape, Body Position And Movement, And Muscle Force Physiological Reviews 92 4 1651 1697

[19] M Slater 2009 Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behavior in immersive virtual environments Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 364 1535 3549 3557

[20] E. A Sutherland 2016 The Limits of Virtual Reality: Debugging the Empathy Machine MIT – Docubase

[21] J. C TuthillE Azim 2018 Proprioception Current Biology 28 5 R194 R203

[22] K Ueno 2020 Artist website http://www.kenueno.com/ Feb 19 2020

[23] A Zweighaft 2012 A virtual reality ball grasp and sort task for the enhancement of phantom limb pain proprioception 2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium 178 183

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