The  Digital  Rubber Hand Illusion

The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a body ownership illusion whereby congruently stroking a fake rubber hand and a subject’s hidden hand while observing the rubber hand produces the illusion of them feeling the touch on the rubber hand and experiencing the rubber hand to be part of their own body. The parameters of the RHI have not been fully defined and we describe an approach utilising digital media and technology to examine and establish parameters for this illusion beginning with three experiments: (i) Repeating the original RHI to determine if our test conditions are conducive to producing the classic illusion. (ii) Replacing the original rubber hand with either a static or animated digital image of it displayed on a tablet. (iii) A VR implementation whereby participants see an image of their own hand viewed through a head-mounted display. Measurements of proprioceptive drift (an objective indicator of the feeling of ownership of the rubber hand) corroborated the original RHI and also suggested that a similar phenomenon can occur when the rubber hand was replaced with either a static or animated digital image of it or in a VR condition.

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Joanna Aldhous

Richard Hetherington

Phil Turner

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-5

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.59

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] K.C. ArmelV.S. Ramachandran 2003 Projecting sensations to external objects: evidence from skin conductance response Proc. R. soc. Lond. B270 1499 1506

[2] M. BotvinickJ. Cohen 1998 Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see Nature 391 1 756

[3] H.H. EhrssonC. SpenceR.E. Passingham 2004 That’s My Hand! Activity in Premotor Cortext Reflects Feeling of Ownership of a Limb Science 305 August 875 877

[4] S Gallagher 2005 How the body shapes the mind Oxford, UK Oxford University Press

[5] W.A. IjsselsteinY.A.W. de KortA. Haans Is This My Hand I See Before Me? Presence 15 4 455 464

[6] A. KalckertH.H. Ehrsson 2012 Moving a rubber hand that feels like your own: a dissociation of ownership and agency Front. Hum. Neurosci 6 40 doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00040

[7] A. KalckertH.H. Ehrsson 2014 The moving rubber hand illusion revisited: Comparing movements and visuotactile stimulation to induce illusory ownership Consciousness and Cognition 26 117 132

[8] K. KilteniA. MaselliK.P. KordingM. Slater 2015 Over my fake body: body ownership illusions for studying the multisensory basis of own-body perception Front. Hum. Neurosci. 9:141. doi: 10.3389lfnhum.2015.00141

[9] T Metzinger 2004 Being no one: The self-model theory of subjectivity Cambridge, MA MIT Press

[10] S. ShimadaK. FukudaK. Hiraki 2009 Rubber Hand Illusion under Delayed Visual Feedback PLoS ONE 4 7 e6185 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006185

[11] W. SingerC.M. Gray 1995 Visual feature integration and the temporal correlation hypothesis Annu. Rev. Neurosci 18 555 586

[12] M. SlaterD. Perez-MarcosH.H. EhrssonM.V. Sanchez-Vives 2008 Front. Hum. Neurosci 2 6 doi: 10.3389/neuro.09.006.2008

[13] M. TsakirisP. Haggard 2005 The Rubber Hand Illusion Revisited: Visuotactile Integration and Self-Attribution J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 31 1 80 91

[14] B van der HoortA GuterstamH.H. Ehrsson 2011 Being Barbie: The Size of One’s Own Body Determines the Perceived Size of the World PLoS ONE 6 5 e20195 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.002019

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The Digital Rubber Hand Illusion