A Pilot Study

Abrams, Anna M. H.; Beckerle, Philipp

doi:10.1145/3173386.3176915

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“…Only few studies so far, however, have implemented both visuotactile and visuomotor feedback in one single setup (e.g., [19, 20]) and–to our best knowledge–no study experimentally manipulated both visuomotor and visuotactile congruency simultaneously in order to assess effects on explicit and implicit body representations. Advancements in robotics could potentially close this critical gap, and could further enhance external validity of experimental designs on the representation of the body in space and its associated perceptions.…”

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“…In the present study, we equipped a robotic hand (as described in [16]) with tactile feedback (as described in [20, 21]), which in contrast to previous RobHI setups not only allows for the precise control of visuomotor feedback (immediate or delayed) but also enables us to manipulate independently the timing of tactile feedback (also immediate or delayed). In two experiments, using full-factorial designs each, we thus wanted to answer the question how the independent manipulation of synchrony between a) visual and tactile input and b) visual and motor information as well as c) their interplay influence body representation by assessing explicit questionnaire measures and the implicitly perceived location of one’s own hand, indicative for shifts of body coordinates in peripersonal space.…”

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Robotic hand illusion with tactile feedback: Unravelling the relative contribution of visuotactile and visuomotor input to the representation of body parts in space

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The rubber hand illusion describes a phenomenon in which participants experience a rubber hand as being part of their body by the synchronous application of visuotactile stimulation to the real and the artificial limb. In the recently introduced robotic hand illusion (RobHI), a robotic hand is incorporated into one’s body representation due to the integration of synchronous visuomotor information. However, there are no setups so far that combine visuotactile and visuomotor feedback, which is expected to unravel mechanisms that cannot be detected in experimental designs applying this information in isolation. We developed a robotic hand, controlled by a sensor glove and equipped with pressure sensors, and varied systematically and separately the synchrony for motor feedback (MF) and tactile feedback (TF). In Experiment 1, we implemented a ball-grasping task and assessed the perceived proprioceptive drift of one’s own hand as a behavioral measure of the spatial calibration of body coordinates as well as explicit embodiment experiences by a questionnaire. Results revealed significant main effects of both MF and TF for proprioceptive drift data, but we only observed main effects for MF on perceived embodiment. Furthermore, for the proprioceptive drift we found that synchronous feedback in one factor compensates for asynchronous feedback in the other. In Experiment 2, including a new sample of naïve participants, we further explored this finding by adding unimodal conditions, in which we manipulated the presence or absence of MF and/or TF. These findings replicated the results from Experiment 1 and we further found evidence for a supper-additive multisensory effect on spatial body representation caused by the presence of both factors. Results on conscious body perception were less consistent across both experiments. The findings indicate that sensory and motor input equally contribute to the representation of spatial body coordinates which for their part are subject to multisensory enhancing effects. The results outline the potential of human-in-the-loop approaches and might have important implications for clinical applications such as for the future design of robotic prostheses.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%