Touch Trick the mind: Haptic Display Augmented the Mind-Map of internal locus of control

Abstract

Previous work in VR has demonstrated that the haptic remapped technique uses visual domination of proprioceptive position sense to map virtual hand positions to match the internal locus of control. However, when the offset between virtual and physical hands gradually increases, the internal locus of control has difficulty in self-attributing the virtual hand movement, and the user becomes aware of the remapping process. Hence, we hypothesize that haptics can influence spatial perception by affecting the internal locus of control in a way that confuses the remapping process. In this paper, we present an experiment to evaluate performance in different cognitive environments to verify that haptics enhances people's perception of space by confusing the original threshold of vision to create illusions. And a haptic redirection is proposed to verify the effect of haptics on internal position control. We designed two experiments to estimate the perception of haptics for internal position sense. Our results quantitatively show that haptics can indeed reduce people's perceptual thresholds for spatial distance as well as depth in a way that alters internal perception by increasing illusion, and that a haptic-visual coherent environment can make the remapping of mismatches between virtual and physical locations less obvious.