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Impact of Virtual Embodiment on the Perception of Virtual Heights

In: Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

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  • Eduard Wolf

    (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences)

  • Thomas Schüler

    (SALT AND PEPPER Software GmbH & Co. KG)

  • Karsten Morisse

    (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences)

Abstract

In Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) for anxiety disorders, virtual reality is used to simulate threatening environments and stimuli, allowing patients to be exposed to their fear. Presence, the ‘sense of being there’, is widely assumed to be crucial for fear responses. It can be enhanced by full-body ownership and agency—the illusory perception that an artificial body is one’s own and that a person is himself the cause for the movements of that body. This study investigated the effects of a virtual full-body representation on the perception of virtual heights. Results revealed that coherent stimuli successfully enabled a virtual embodiment, while subjects with acrophobic tendencies showed fear responses to virtual heights. However, effects were neither found on fear, nor on presence nor on self-confidence nor on physiological responses. These findings suggest that virtual embodiment has no significant influence on the efficacy of a VRET for fear of heights.

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  • Eduard Wolf & Thomas Schüler & Karsten Morisse, 2020. "Impact of Virtual Embodiment on the Perception of Virtual Heights," Progress in IS, in: Timothy Jung & M. Claudia tom Dieck & Philipp A. Rauschnabel (ed.), Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, pages 197-211, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-030-37869-1_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37869-1_17
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