Virtual Body Swap: A New Feasible Tool to Be Explored in Health and Education

Oliveira, Elen Collaço de; Bertrand, Philippe; Lesur, Marte Ernesto Roel; Palomo, Priscila; Demarzo, Marcelo; Cebolla, Ausiàs; Baños, Rosa; Tori, Romero

doi:10.1109/svr.2016.23

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“…If presence in the body is the outcome of different embodied simulations, and VR is a simulation technology, this suggests the possibility of altering the experience of the body by designing targeted virtual environments. 113 In this view, VR can be defined as an “embodied technology” for its possibility of modifying the embodiment experience of its users. 114–116 As noted by Riva et al, “using VR, subjects can experience the synthetic environment as if it was ‘their surrounding world’ ( incarnation : the physical body is within a virtual environment) or can experience their synthetic avatars as if they were ‘their own body’ ( embodiment : the physical body is replaced by the virtual one).” 1(p9) In other words, VR is able to fool the predictive coding mechanisms used by the brain generating the feeling of presence in a virtual body and in the digital space around it.…”

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Neuroscience of Virtual Reality: From Virtual Exposure to Embodied Medicine

Riva

Wiederhold

Mantovani

2019

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Is virtual reality (VR) already a reality in behavioral health? To answer this question, a meta-review was conducted to assess the meta-analyses and systematic and narrative reviews published in this field in the last twenty-two months. Twenty-five different articles demonstrated the clinical potential of this technology in both the diagnosis and the treatment of mental health disorders: VR compares favorably to existing treatments in anxiety disorders, eating and weight disorders, and pain management, with long-term effects that generalize to the real world. But why is VR so effective? Here, the following answer is suggested: VR shares with the brain the same basic mechanism: embodied simulations. According to neuroscience, to regulate and control the body in the world effectively, the brain creates an embodied simulation of the body in the world used to represent and predict actions, concepts, and emotions. VR works in a similar way: the VR experience tries to predict the sensory consequences of an individual's movements, providing to him/her the same scene he/she will see in the real world. To achieve this, the VR system, like the brain, maintains a model (simulation) of the body and the space around it. If the presence in the body is the outcome of different embodied simulations, concepts are embodied simulations, and VR is an embodied technology, this suggests a new clinical approach discussed in this article: the possibility of altering the experience of the body and facilitating cognitive modeling/change by designing targeted virtual environments able to simulate both the external and the internal world/body.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Vr As Embodied Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neuroscience of Virtual Reality: From Virtual Exposure to Embodied Medicine

Riva

Wiederhold

Mantovani

2019

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

323

260

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“…To extend the examples beyond scientific fields, the article will briefly describe one artistic system in VR, designed to promote empathy-related behavior, called The Machine to Be Another (TMTBA; Bertrand et al, 2014;Sutherland, 2014;Oliveira et al, 2016), created by one of the authors of this article together with the interdisciplinary collective BeAnotherLab. Although there are no scientific results of these experiments in promoting empathy, the system adopts interesting approaches to address its goals.…”

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Learning Empathy Through Virtual Reality: Multiple Strategies for Training Empathy-Related Abilities Using Body Ownership Illusions in Embodied Virtual Reality

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Several disciplines have investigated the interconnected empathic abilities behind the proverb "to walk a mile in someone else's shoes" to determine how the presence, and absence, of empathy-related phenomena affect prosocial behavior and intergroup relations. Empathy enables us to learn from others' pain and to know when to offer support. Similarly, virtual reality (VR) appears to allow individuals to step into someone else's shoes, through a perceptual illusion called embodiment, or the body ownership illusion. Considering these perspectives, we propose a theoretical analysis of different mechanisms of empathic practices in order to define a possible framework for the design of empathic training in VR. This is not intended to be an extensive review of all types of practices, but an exploration of empathy and empathy-related phenomena. Empathyrelated training practices are analyzed and categorized. We also identify different variables used by pioneer studies in VR to promote empathy-related responses. Finally, we propose strategies for using embodied VR technology to train specific empathy-related abilities.

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“…Another way to influence our attitudes through embodied experiences is to diminish out-group and in-group racial bias by visualizing an avatar of different skin color than the participant (Maister et al, 2015 ; Hasler et al, 2017 ). There are also other studies that show the extent of the influence of VR environment that can affect real-world behavior (Peck et al, 2013 ; Ahn et al, 2014 ), as well as enhance prosocial behavior (Rosenberg et al, 2013 ; Shriram et al, 2017 ) and is considered to be used in health and education (De Oliveira et al, 2016 ). There is a need to investigate these processes further as well as the individual capacities, and socio-cultural practices they rely on.…”

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confidence: 99%