Verification of out of body sensations, attribution and localization by interaction with oneself

Abstract

To enhance the realistic sensation and the human presence in a telepresence or a telexistence system, it is important not only to match the audio-visual sensation of the operator with the robot but also to match the embodiment of the operator with the robot by reflecting the somatic sensation of the operator. Presently, however, in telexistence, the key factors for matching the embodiment of the operator with the robot are unclear and lack established evaluation methods. In this paper, we experiment with out-of-body sensations in a telexistence system on the basis of the rubber hand illusion. We construct a system to self-interact with and evaluate the stimulation influence of the self-attribution and self-localization of the body.