Agency Enhances Body Ownership Illusion of Being a Virtual Bat
Anastassia Andreasen, Niels Christian Nilsson, Stefania Serafin · 2018
This poster describes a within-subject study of agency's influence on virtual body ownership (VBO) using anatomically similar but morphologically different body of a virtual bat. Paricipants were exposed to flight under four conditions: voluntary movement through virtual environment (VE) with avatar present, voluntary movement through virtual environment (VE) with avatar absent, voluntary limbs movement without movements through VE, and finally involuntary movement of the avatar through VE. The results suggest that agency enhances VBO illusion the most under participants' full control during flight locomotion.